Shakespeare coined many popular phrases that are still commonly used today. Here are some examples of Shakespeare's most familiar quotes from Julius Caesar. You just might be surprised to learn of all the everyday sayings that originally came from Shakespeare!
"Beware the ides of March." (Act I, Scene II)
"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me." (Act I, Scene II)
"Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous." (Act I, Scene II)
"Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings." (Act I, Scene II)
"A dish fit for the gods." (Act II, Scene I)
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come." (Act II, Scene II)
"Et tu, Brute!" (Act III, Scene I)
"Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war." (Act III, Scene I)
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him." (Act III, Scene II)
"For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men." (Act III, Scene II)
"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more." (Act III, Scene II)
"When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff." (Act III, Scene II)
"As he was valiant, I honor him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him." (Act III, Scene II)
"This was the noblest Roman of them all." (Act V, Scene V)
