Cassius Quotes

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

Men at some time are masters of their fates.

If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

Every time I look in the mirror, God looks back.

Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent. [Lat., Praefulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.]

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius, That you would have me seek into myself For that which is not in me?

The world’s champ should be pretty like me!

So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.

I was born free as Caesar; so were you

But it is the nature of stars to cross, and never was Shakespeare more wrong than when he has Cassius note, ‘The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars / But in ourselves.

No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!

The images of twenty of the most illustrious families the Manlii, the Quinctii, and other names of equal splendour were carried before it [the bier of Junia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that very reason they shone with pre-eminent lustre.

If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.