Caesar Quotes

For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string. (Spike Milligan)
Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwelland George the Third (Treason, cried the Speaker) ... may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it. View quote
Patrick Henry
Everyone knows that gays have served honorably in the military since at least the time of Julius Caesar. View quote
Barry Goldwater
Again, during a sacrifice, the augur Spurinna warned Caesar that the danger threatening him would not come later than the Ides of March. View quote
Suetonius
Sometimes you don't know if you're Caesar about to cross the Rubicon or Captain Queeg cutting your own tow line. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
Brisk and prompt to war, soft and not in the least able to resist calamity, fickle in catching at schemes, and always striving after novelties - French characteristics remained unaltered twenty centuries after Julius Caesar made a note of them for all time. View quote
Frederick Rolfe
We need a Napoleon. An Alexander. Except that Napoleon lost in the end, and Alexander flamed out and died young. We need a Julius Caesar, except that he made himself a dictator, and died for it. View quote
Orson Scott Card
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. View quote
Benito Mussolini
I would say here something that was heard from an ecclesiastic of the most eminent degree [probably Caesar Baronius]: "The intention of the Holy Ghost is to teach us how one goes to heaven, not how heaven goes." View quote
Galileo Galilei
To minimize suffering and to maximize security were natural and proper ends of society and Caesar. But then they became the only ends, somehow, and the only basis of law - a perversion. Inevitably, then, in seeking only them, we found only their opposites: maximum suffering and minimum security. View quote
Walter M. Miller, Jr.
As Caesar was at supper the discourse was of death - which sort was the best, That, said he, which is unexpected. (Plutarch)
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. View quote
Plutarch
He who remembers the evils he has undergone, and those that have threatened him, and the slight causes that have changed him from one state to another, prepares himself in that way for future changes and for recognizing his condition. The life of Caesar has no more to show us than our own; an emperor's or an ordinary man's, it is still a life subject to all human accidents. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
[Napoleon has now] surpassed...Alexander & Caesar, not to mention the great advantage he has over them in the Cause he fights in. View quote
Charles James Fox
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. View quote
Vitruvius
But I, Caesar, have not sought to amass wealth by the practice of my art, having been rather contented with a small fortune and reputation, than desirous of abundance accompanied by a want of reputation. View quote
Vitruvius
It is possible to hold a faith with enough confidence to believe that what should be rendered to God does not need to be decided and collected by Caesar. View quote
Robert H. Jackson
Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more. View quote
William Shakespeare
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. View quote
William Shakespeare
Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look He thinks too much such men are dangerous. Julius Caesar. View quote
William Shakespeare
Caesar broke the law when he crossed the Rubicon," Frank said. "Great leaders have to think out side the box sometimes. (Rick Riordan)
It's never been an issue for me - I don't want to go on a diet, I don't want to eat a Caesar salad with no dressing, why would I do that? I ain't got time for this, just be happy and don't be stupid. If I've got a boyfriend and he loves my body then I'm not worried. View quote
Adele
Caesar salad is one of my favourite lunch foods. You can shovel it in and talk at the same time. View quote
Janet Street-Porter
My very first acting job ever, the first time I got paid to be an actress, was in 2001, right between my sophomore and junior year in college, when I was just 19 years old. I got paid $250 every two weeks, 10 shows a week, to be in the Utah Shakespearean Festival. I was Calpurnia in 'Julius Caesar.' View quote
Katy Mixon
English language is the most universal language in history, way more than the Latin of Julius Caesar. Its the most punderful language because its vocabulary has a certain critical mass that makes a lingo good for punning. View quote
Richard Lederer