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Quotes About Brutus

For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.
~ William Shakespeare
Let's be honest, the cards' on the table: Jealousy's a sin, Cain killed Abel. Backstabber...Caesar had Brutus. It's hard to weed 'em out, even Jesus had Judas.
~ Pusha T
There are all kinds of historians and scholars who say that Brutus could have been a son of Caesar. That's definitely a possibility. He's a generation younger than Caesar.
~ David Denman
At Philippi, Bunny, where I said I'd see him. What a rabbit you are at a quotation! "'And I think that the field of Philippi Was where Cæsar came to an end; But who gave old Brutus the tip, I Can't comprehend!' "You may have forgotten your Shakespeare, Bunny, but you ought to remember that.
~ E.W. Hornung
at Rome before midday by Marcus Brutus, Gaius Cassius Longinus, and others.
~ Anthony Everitt
the Senate ordered that the dead consuls' armies should be handed over to Decimus Brutus, he refused
~ Anthony Everitt
Brutus was high-minded, an intellectual who took ideas seriously. He saw the assassination of Caesar as a sacrifice rather than a political act. He was a man with "a singularly gentle nature," who feared civil war almost (although not quite) as much as tyranny.
~ Anthony Everitt
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.
~ John Green
Both Brutus and Hamlet are highly intellectual by nature and reflective by habit. Both may even be called, in a popular sense, philosophic; Brutus may be called so in a stricter sense.
~ Andrew Coyle Bradley
When the rapacity of capitalists grows oppressive, one may be suddenly consoled by the recollection that Brutus, that exemplar of republican virtue, lent money to a city at 40 per cent, and hired a private army to besiege it when it failed to pay the interest.
~ Bertrand Russell
Forever and forever, farewell, John Milholland / If we do meet again, why, we shall smile / If not, why then, this parting was well made": lines spoken by Brutus to Cassius in act 5, scene 1, of Julius Caesar. He aced the test.
~ Michael Lewis
A dagger is the noble weapon of Brutus. Everyone understands that tyrants fall to daggers. A bomb is a sordid modern device with many complex working parts. Only engineers understand bombs
~ Bruce Sterling
I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke, But here I am to speak what I do know. You all did love him once, not without cause: What cause withholds you then, to mourn for him? O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason. Bear with me; My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, And I must pause till it come back to me.
~ William Shakespeare
The images of the most illustrious families… were carried before it [the bier of Julia]. Those of Brutus and Cassius were not displayed; but for that reason they shone with preeminent luster.
~ Unknown
For Brutus, as you know, was Caesar's angel:Judge, O you gods, how dearly Caesar loved him!This was the most unkindest cut of all
~ William Shakespeare
The evil that men do lives after them; To be immortal, learn that lesson well. —MARC ANTONY, at the execution of Brutus The Revenge of Julius Caesar
~ John Jackson Miller
He who establishes a tyranny and does not kill Brutus, and he who establishes a democratic regime and does not kill the sons of Brutus, will not last long.
~ Niccolo Machiavelli
After the three of them got back to the Portakabin, while Quill and Ross started to add the details from the manuscript pages to the Ops Board, Sefton got out his special notebook and checked through everything he'd written down about his encounter with...whatever Brutus had been. "I was proceeding in a mystical direction when I encountered a six-foot-two Roman male, with whom I shared a certain sexual tension.
~ Unknown