Quotes About Power

There's such divinity doth hedge a king,That treason can but peep to what it would.

I am Sir Oracle,And when I ope my lips let no dog bark!

Great Caesar fell.O! what a fall was there, my countrymen;Then I, and you, and all of us fell down,Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us.

Now he'll outstare the lightning. To be furiousIs to be frighted out of fear.

Speak, hands, for me!

For greatest scandal waits on greatest state.

See, sons, what things you are!How quickly nature falls into revoltWhen gold becomes her object!

Orpheus with his lute made trees,And the mountain-tops that freeze,Bow themselves, when he did sing.

Ay, every inch a king.

O mighty Caesar! dost thou lie so low?Are all thy conquests, glories, triumphs, spoils,Shrunk to this little measure?

O! the blood more stirsTo rouse a lion than to start a hare!

We cannot hold mortality's strong hand.

Upon what meat doth this our Caesar feed,That he is grown so great?

The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

I would not be a queenFor all the world.

The demi-Atlas of this earth, the armAnd burgonet of men.

No man's pie is freedFrom his ambitious finger.

I think we do know the sweet Roman hand.

And let the welkin roar.

That England, that was wont to conquer others,Hath made a shameful conquest of itself.

When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept;Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

And art made tongue-tied by authority.

Wherever the bright sun of heaven shall shine,His honor and the greatness of his nameShall be, and make new nations.

But man, proud man,Drest in a little brief authority,Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,His glassy essence, like an angry ape,Plays such fantastic tricks before high heavenAs make the angels weep.