Quotes About Caesar

Bernie emerged from a cluster of giggling girls when he saw me, raised his cigar in salute, then ran over to my car. "You missed it, boy. You missed the greatest welcome since Caesar returned to Rome.

God did not choose Herod or Pontius Pilate or Caesar Augustus as His instrument. He chose the unknown son of an unknown carpenter in one of the least important stretches of the Roman Empire.

Nevertheless, the movement of intelligence over western and southern Europe was as rapid in Caesar's day as at any time before the railway. In 54 B.C.. Caesar's letter from Britain reached Cicero at Rome in twenty-nine days; in 1834 Sir Robert Peel, hurrying from Rome to London, required thirty days.20

So fell, ignominiously, the modern Roman Caesar, a bellicose-sounding man of the twentieth century who had known how to profit from its confusions and despair, but who underneath the gaudy façade was made largely of sawdust. As

So fell, ignominiously, the modern Roman Caesar, a bellicose-sounding man of the twentieth century who had known how to profit from its confusions and despair, but who underneath the gaudy façade was made largely of sawdust.

Human nature is universally imbued with a desire for liberty, and a hatred for servitude. Caesar, Gallic Wars Only a few prefer liberty—the majority seek nothing more than fair masters. Sallust, Histories

At the heart of the crisis lay the simple fact that Caesar, if he were permitted to progress seamlessly from Gaul to a second consulship, would at no stage be a private citizen. This, to many, was intolerable—for only a private citizen could be brought to trial.

Whether cheering on boxers in back streets, sporting a battered sunhat or roaring with laughter at the sight of a hunchback, Imperator Caesar Augustus retained just a hint of the provincial.

While Antony had gazed in sorrow at his fallen adversary on the battlefield of Philippi, his youthful colleague had shed no tears. Instead, ordering Brutus's corpse decapitated, he had packed the head off to Rome. There, with pointed symbolism, it had been placed at the foot of the statue where Caesar had died.

Yet there was, in this same exercise of clemency, more than a whiff of what made so many of his peers resent and detest him. Merciful he may have been – but mercy was properly the virtue of a master. Caesar felt no call to apologise for his dominance.

Beware the ides of March.

The ides of March are come. Soothsayer: Ay, Caesar; but not gone.

What means this shouting? I do fear, the people Choose Caesar for their king.

Hot from hell. Caesar's spirit raging in revenge. Cry,havoc! And let slip the dogs of war.

Caesar, Now be still, I killed not thee with half so good a will?

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.

This was the noblest Roman of them all: All the conspirator, save only he, Did that they did in envy of great Caesar. He only, in a general honest thought And common good to all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world, 'This was a man!

Caesar. Nor heaven nor earth have been at peace to-night.      Thrice

Caesar set his legion's All Day speed at exactly "twenty Roman miles in five summer hours," or 15:00 minutes a mile. The next faster gear was double-time, a 13:30 clip that covered twenty-two Roman miles in five hours. When you factor in the gnarly terrain and 45-pound packs on their backs, that's a churn rate any ultrarunner would envy.

Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Caesar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).

battle between Cæsar and Cassivelaunus.  Cassivelaunus had prepared the river for Cæsar, by planting it full of stakes (and had, no doubt, put up a notice-board).  But Cæsar crossed in spite of this.  You couldn't choke Cæsar off that river.  He is the sort of man we want round the backwaters now.

THE POET FLORUS TO HADRIAN I wouldn't want to be Caesar, And tramp round Britain, Getting ague in my knees For Scythian frosts later to freeze. HADRIAN'S REPLY I wouldn't want to be Florus And lurk in pubs, Eating pies and peas And wander round wine-shops Getting infested with fleas. HISTORIA AUGUSTA Hadrian 16

A bloody knife is used again. The hand that stabs is stabbed within. The one you trust is not your friend, Like Julius Caesar in the end.

Always follow the money; rendering unto Caesar what is his may not be pleasurable, but the records are great.