Top 100 Quotes About Caesar
#2. I cannot but bless the memory of Julius Caesar, for the great esteem he expressed for fat men and his aversion to lean ones.
David Hume
#3. You are not wood, you are not stones, but men;
And being men, hearing the will of Caesar,
It will inflame you, it will make you mad.
William Shakespeare
#4. And as he plucked his cursed steel away,
Mark how the blood of Caesar followed it,
As rushing out of doors, to be resolved
If Brutus unkindly knocked or no.
William Shakespeare
#5. No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Caesar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .
George Bernard Shaw
#6. They're Caesar's praetorian guard, whispering as the parade roars down the avenue, 'Remember, Caesar, thou art mortal.
Ray Bradbury
#7. I think that when Evel Knievel crashed over the fountain at Caesar's, it kind of gave you a credibility and then anticipation for everything he did.
David Blaine
#8. Caesar's double-bed is warm
As an unimportant clerk
Writes i do not like my work
On a pink official form.
W. H. Auden
#9. I'll tell you the truth; I wanted to leave me for Sid Caesar.
Red Buttons
#11. The historicity of Christ is as axiomatic for an unbiased historian as the historicity of Julius Caesar.
F.F. Bruce
#12. Father, I serve the Messiah, the Christ. Not any Caesar. His kingdom is not of this world, and no man need fight for it. All empires will pass away, but Christ lives. He is love and peace, and his kingdom will last forever.
David Holdsworth
#13. The story of Jesus Christ appearing after he was dead is the story of an apparition, such as timid imaginations can always create in vision, and credulity believe. Stories of this kind had been told of the assassination of Julius Caesar.
Thomas Paine
#14. Jesus said, 'Render unto Caesar that which is Caesar's,' and part of that was to go to war, protecting whatever nation was under control of the king. I wouldn't agree with any interpretation of Scripture that was used to say that a man or a woman shouldn't protect their families.
Jerry Falwell Jr.
#15. Caesar's kindnesses are conscious, done for Caesar's benefit, and Caesar no longer sees the world as a place wherein magical things can occur. Because they can't. Men and women ruin it with their impulses, desires, thoughtlessness, lack of intelligence and cupidity.
Colleen McCullough
#16. Julius Caesar owed two millions when he risked the experiment of being general in Gaul. If Julius Caesar had not lived to cross the Rubicon, and pay off his debts, what would his creditors have called Julius Caesar?
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#17. A man's grammar, like Caesar's wife, should not only be pure, but above suspicion of impurity.
Edgar Allan Poe
#18. I would like to thank Julius Caesar for originating my hairstyle
Kanye West
#19. God did not choose Herod or Pontius Pilate or Caesar Augustus as His instrument. He chose the unknown son of an unknown carpenter in one of the least important stretches of the Roman Empire.
Dan Simmons
#20. You have never spent any time in theatrical circles, have you? So you do not know those thespian faces that can embody the features of a Julius Caesar, a Goethe and a Beethoven all in one, but whose owners, the moment they open their mouths, prove to be the most miserable ninnies under the sun.
Thomas Mann
#21. Caesar freely confessed to me, that the greatest actions of his own life were not equal, by many degrees, to the glory of taking it away.
Jonathan Swift
#22. Go on, my friend, and fear nothing; you carry Caesar and his fortune in your boat.
Julius Caesar
#23. Thirty centuries of history allow us to look with supreme pity on certain doctrines which are preached beyond the Alps by the descendants of those who were illiterate when Rome had Caesar, Virgil, and Augustus.
Benito Mussolini
#24. Then you may have sheer clotted nonsense; I once chased Julius Caesar all over London to get his recipe for curried eggs.
Arthur Machen
#25. Read over and over again the campaigns of Alexander, Hannibal, Caesar, Gustavus, Turenne, Eugene and Frederic ... This is the only way to become a great general and master the secrets of the art of war.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#26. He [Caesar Augustus] found a city built of brick; he left it built of marble.
[Lat., Urbem lateritiam accepit, mamoream relinquit.]
Suetonius
#27. For Caesar met failure each time he relied on the direct, and retrieved it each time he resorted to the indirect.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#28. The Romans held Britain from the invasion of Julius Caesar till their voluntary withdrawal from the island, A.D. 420,- that is, about five hundred years.
Thomas Bulfinch
#30. Therefore the words in Psalm 72:7: "In his days shall the righteous flourish; and abundance of peace so long as the moon endureth," must not be explained as signifying such earthly peace as the world enjoyed under Caesar Augustus, as many believe, but "peace with God," or spiritual peace.
Martin Luther
#31. For want of a Pilate of their own, some Christians would accept a Constantine or whomever might be the current incarnation of Caesar.
Wendell Berry
#32. While he may forget that he is Caesar, I never forget that I am Caesar's daughter.
Tom Holland
#33. I, therefore, O Caesar, do not publish this work, merely prefixing my name to a treatise which of right belongs to others, nor think of acquiring reputation by finding fault with the works of any one.
Vitruvius
#34. They whispered to Caesar that he was mortal, then sold daggers at half-price in the grand March sale.
Ray Bradbury
#35. Paradoxically, the few eras of peace were times when men of war had high influence. The Pax Romana was enforced by Caesar's Legions. The Pax Brittanica was enforced by the Royal Navy and His Majesty's Forces.
Jerry Pournelle
#36. A girl had to do what a girl had to do and it looked as if this girl's immediate future included chicken Caesar salad, chocolate cake, and Cary Grant.
Leslie Meier
#37. I'm up for the Julius Caesar Author of the Year Award this year. I'm tremendously proud, considering Caesar is the guy who burned down the Library of Alexandria.
Jarod Kintz
#38. It has been remarked that almost every character which has excited either attention or pity has owed part of its success to merit, and part to a happy concurrence of circumstances in its favor. Had Caesar or Cromwell exchanged countries, the one might have been a sergeant and the other an exciseman.
Oliver Goldsmith
#39. I marvel that whereas the ambitious dreams of my self, Caesar, and Alexander should have vanished into thin air, a Judean peasant-Jesus-s hould be able to stretch His hands across the centuries and control the destinies of men and nations.
Napoleon Bonaparte
#40. Alexander, Caesar, Napoleon, you all had great moments, but you never tasted the supreme triumph; you were never a farm boy riding in from the fields on a bulging rack of new-mown hay.
Grant Wood
#41. I could rent Caesar out at birthday parties. Halloween parties. I could take pictures of Caesar eating a piece of birthday cake. Or a picture of a kid riding Caesar on his birthday. We could build a saddle.
Pat Conroy
#42. He who surrenders himself without reservation to the temporal claims of a nation, or a party, or a class is rendering to Caesar that which, of all things, most emphatically belongs to God: himself.
C.S. Lewis
#43. They were in Julius Caesar now and the stage direction "Alarum" confused Katie. She thought it had something to do with fire engines and whenever she came to that word, she shouted out "clang-clang." The children thought it was wonderful.
Betty Smith
#44. So Haymitch, what do you think of the games have one hundred percent more competitors than usual?" asks Caesar.
Haymitch shrugs. "I don't see that it makes that much difference. They'll still be one hundred percent as stupid as usual, so I figure my odds will be roughly the same.
Suzanne Collins
#45. In other words, according to Jesus, Caesar is entitled to be "given back" the denarius coin, not because he deserves tribute, but because it is his coin: his name and picture are stamped on it.
Reza Aslan
#46. Roma are defined (by Europeans) as the Indian Gypsies; and Jews are defined (by Semites) as the European and Russian Gypsies. Both are treated as illegal immigrants, however, The Lord has His own equation and judgement. And only Caesar is foolish enough to dare and confront it.
Ibrahim Ibrahim
#47. In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
John Lothrop Motley
#48. At your next breath each of you will probably inhale half a dozen or so of the molecules of Caesar's last breath.
Arthur Compton
#49. Caesar is not above the grammarians.
Tiberius
#50. [In ancient Rome,] why did the senate after killing Caesar turn around and give the government to his nephew? Why did France after they got rid of the king and that whole system turn around and give it to Napoleon? It's the same thing with Germany and Hitler.
George Lucas
#51. [I]t is impossible that any people of government should ever prosper, where men render not unto God, that which is God's, as well as to Caesar, that which is Caesar's.
William Penn
#52. Pompey had fought brilliantly and in the end routed Caesar's whole force ... but either he was unable to or else he feared to push on. Caesar [said] to his friends: 'Today the enemy would have won, if they had had a commander who was a winner.
Plutarch
#53. Julius Caesar burned down a library?" I asked. "Fucker.
Rose Christo
#54. You couldn't find nobody deader, not if you'd sarched for a week. Why, door nails, and Julius Caesar, and things o' that description, would ha' been lively compared with your poor ma when I see her. Lively! that's what they'd ha' been.
Laura E. Richards
#55. Where everyman is participator in the government of affairs, not merely at an election one day in the year but everyday, he will let the heart be torn out of his body sooner than his power be wrested from him by a Caesar or a Bonaparte.
Thomas Jefferson
#56. There never was any hope," Caesar muttered.
"There was, before you destroyed it.
Meagan Spooner
#57. Make as many laws as you please, men; but keep them for yourselves. The tribute to Caesar is never anything but the remnants of the tribute to God.
Victor Hugo
#58. When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.
William Shakespeare
#59. Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's and to God the things that are God's.
Saint Ambrose
#61. Thy steady temper, Portius, Can look on guilt, rebellion, fraud, and Caesar, In the calm lights of mild philosophy.
Joseph Addison
#62. Envy consists in seeing things never in themselves, but only in their relations. If you desire glory, you may envy Napoleon, but Napoleon envied Caesar, Caesar envied Alexander, and Alexander, I daresay, envied Hercules, who never existed.
Bertrand Russell
#63. I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it.
Harold Prince
#64. It is surely no coincidence that Napoleon's two greatest heroes were Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar. In certain respects, he would outdo them both.
Saul David
#65. I am not the worst thing that can happen to you, but I will be the last. ~Caesar~ The Goodbye Man.
A. Giannoccaro
#66. Id like to acknowledge three people who early on knew Mel Brooks was one of the funniest people in the world: Sid Caesar, me, and Mel Brooks.
Carl Reiner
#67. I chop 'em into salad and my name ain't Caesar.
Black Thought
#68. Few of Caesar's assassins outlived him by more than three years, or died in their beds.
Suetonius
#69. He [Caesar] loved the treason, but hated the traitor.
Plutarch
#70. Unless Caesar Augustus is unwittingly complying with the will of God, if it is true that in His divine wisdom He has ordained that Joseph and Mary should go to Bethlehem at this time.
Jose Saramago
#71. Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas.
Stephenie Meyer
#72. Oh Ireland my first and only love
Where Christ and Caesar are hand in glove!
James Joyce
#73. Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out!
Timothy Leary
#74. And when my own Mark Antony
Against young Caesar strove,
And Rome's whole world was set in arms,
The cause was,
all for love.
Robert Southey
#75. If I met Abraham, I would honor him,
if met Moses, I would praise him,
If I met Jesus, I would bow to Him,
if I met Caesar, I would conquer him.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#76. He thought himself a mighty prince, but before the Lord (that is, in God's account) he was but a mighty hunter. Note, Great conquerors are but great hunters. Alexander and Caesar would not make such a figure in scripture-history as they do in common history;
Matthew Henry
#77. I question if Epicurus and Hume have done mankind a greater service by the looseness of their doctrines than by the purity of their lives. Of such men we may more justly exclaim, than of Caesar, Confound their virtues, they've undone the world!
Charles Caleb Colton
#78. Why does crime, even when as powerful as Caesar, and assured of being beyond punishment, strive always for the appearances of truth, justice, and virtue? Why does it take the trouble?
Henryk Sienkiewicz
#80. Apollodorus came, Caesar saw, Cleopatra conquered.
Stacy Schiff
#81. Caesar had perished from the world of men, had not his sword been rescued by his pen.
Henry Vaughan
#82. "Render unto Caesar the things which are Caesar's and unto God the things which are God's." One would like to add: Give unto man things which are man's; give man his freedom and personality, his rights and religion.
Pope Pius XII
#83. Imperious Caesar, dead and turned to clay,
Might stop a hole to keep the wind away.
Oh, that that earth, which kept the world in awe,
Should patch a wall t' expel the winter's flaw!
William Shakespeare
#84. Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third - ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] - may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.
Patrick Henry
#85. All democracies turn into dictatorships - but not by coup. The people give their democracy to a dictator, whether it's Julius Caesar or Napoleon or Adolf Hitler. Ultimately, the general population goes along with the idea ...
George Lucas
#86. Those renowned generals [Alexander and Caesar] received more faithful service, and performed greater actions by means of the love their soldiers bore them, than they could possibly have done, if instead of being beloved and respected they had been hated and feared by those they commanded.
Benjamin Franklin
#87. Part of John's meaning of the cross, then, is that it is not only what happens, purely pragmatically, when God's kingdom challenges Caesar's kingdom. It is also what has to happen if God's kingdom, which makes its way (as Jesus insists) by nonviolence rather than by violence, is to win the day.
N. T. Wright
#88. When I was 7 years old I saw Jimmy Connors make someone carry his bag, as though he were Julius Caesar. I vowed then and there that I would always carry my own.
Andre Agassi
#89. Not much could have distracted me from coffee, but hearing Julius Caesar quoted at Spencer's certainly did.
Richelle Mead
#90. I am in awe, in admiration of the man who Gaius Julius Caesar was. I don't actually do him as the man himself. He is maybe a distant relative. It's hard to approach the real man because he is such an awesome icon.
Karl Urban
#91. Caesar gives his legions free rein to chase women and gamble when they are off duty. "My men fight just as well when they are stinking of perfume," he says.
Anonymous
#92. Playing Mark Antony in Julius Caesar was the most thrilling thing I've done. You get these speeches that were written for men, and you're running around like an action hero, climbing scaffolding and beating people up. It was very freeing.
Cush Jumbo
#93. If we assume that the last breath of, say, Julius Caesar has by now become thoroughly scattered through the atmosphere, then the chances are that each of us inhales one molecule of it with every breath we take.
James Hopwood Jeans
#94. In the days of Caesar, kings had fools and jesters. Now network presidents have anchormen.
Ted Koppel
#95. Caesar declared that an orator should 'avoid an unusual word as the helmsman of a ship avoided a reef'.
Adrian Goldsworthy
#96. The soldier swears to respect no man above Caesar, but we to respect ourselves first of all.'10 'When you appear before the mighty of the earth, remember that Another looks from above on what is happening, and that you must please Him rather than this man.'11
Anonymous
#97. Thus an excess of directness and a want of art, in the second phase, robbed Caesar of his chance of ending the war in one campaign, and condemned him to four more years of obstinate warfare all round the Mediterranean basin.
B.H. Liddell Hart
#98. I also like a great Caesar salad with anchovies, although I don't know why some places say 'with anchovies.' If you're making a proper Caesar salad, it's going to have anchovies.
Paula Poundstone
#99. At stake are two different visions of faith, the Church of Caesar, powerful and rich; and the Church of Christ - loving, poor and spiritually rich.
Penny Lernoux
#100. Caesar gave the ultimate definition of ambition when he said: 'Better to be the chief of a village than a subaltern in Rome'.
Fernando Pessoa
