Julius Caesar (1953)

John Gielgud: Cassius

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• Cassius : 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.

• Cassius : [referring to Julius Caesar]  And this man is now become a god.

• Cassius : Now, in the name of all the gods at once, upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed, that he is grown so great?

• Cassius : Tell me, good Brutus, can you see your face?

  Brutus : No, Cassius, for the eye sees not itself but by reflection, by some other things.

• Cassius : Good Brutus, be prepared to hear. And since you know you cannot see yourself so well as by reflection, I, your glass, will modestly discover to yourself that of yourself which you yet know not of.

• Cassius : Age, thou art shamed! Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods.

• Cassius : Brutus and Caesar. What should be in that Caesar? Why should that name be sounded more than yours? Write them together, yours is as fair a name. Sound them, it doth become the mouth as well. Weigh them, it is as heavy. Conjure with them, Brutus will start a spirit as soon as Caesar.

• Cassius : Who's there?

• Cassius : We will shake him - or worse days endure.

• Brutus : And so it is. For this time I will leave you. Tomorrow, if you please to speak with me, I will come home to you. Or, if you will, come home to me, and I will wait for you.

  Cassius : I will do so. Till then - think of the world.

• Cassius : Who so firm - that cannot be seduced?

• Cassius : O grief, where hast thou led me?

• Cassius : Friends, disperse yourselves, but all remember what you have said, and show yourselves true Romans.

• Brutus : Fates, we will know your pleasures. That we shall die, we know. 'Tis but the time and drawing days out that men stand upon.

  Cassius : Why, he that cuts off 20 years of life, cuts off so many years of fearing death.

  Brutus : Grant that, and then is death a benefit. So we, Caesar's friends, that have abridged his time of fearing death.

• Brutus : Our reasons are so full of good regard that were you, Antony, the son of Caesar, you should be satisfied.

  Marc Antony : That's all I seek, and am moreover suitor that I may produce his body to the marketplace, and in the pulpit, as becomes a friend, speak in the order of his funeral.

  Brutus : You shall, Mark Antony.

  Cassius : Brutus, a word with you.

  [takes Brutus aside] 

• Cassius : How many ages hence shall this our lofty scene be acted over, in states unborn and accents yet unknown.

• Cassius : Urge me no more, I shall forget myself. Have mind upon your health! Tempt me no further!

• Cassius : O ye gods, ye gods, must I endure all this?

• Brutus : Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm, to sell and mart your offices for gold to undeservers.

  Cassius : I, an itching palm!

• Cassius : O, insupportable and touching loss!

• Cassius : Forever and forever farewell, Brutus. If we do meet again, we'll smile indeed. If not, 'tis true this parting was well made.

• Cassius : O, I could weep the spirit from mine eyes!

• Cassius : This day I breathed first. Time is come round, and where I did begin, there shall I end. My life is run its compass.

• Cassius : Ye gods! It doth amaze me a man of such a feeble temper should so get the start of the majestic world and bear the palm alone.