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  • 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.

    Life   Stars   Fate  
    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 134
  • And then it happens. Up and down the row, the victors begin to join hands. Some right away, like the morphlings, or Wiress and Beetee. Others unsure but caught up in the demands of those around them, like Brutus and Enobaria. By the time the anthem plays its final strains, all twenty-four of us stand in one unbroken line in what must be the first public show of unity among the districts since the Dark Days. You can see the realization of this as the screens begin to pop into blackness. It's too late, though. In the confusion they didn't cut us off in time. Everyone has seen.

    Cutting   Dark   Hands  
    Suzanne Collins (2010). “Catching Fire (The Second Book of the Hunger Games)”, p.258, Scholastic Inc.
  • Brutus, I do observe you now of late: I have not from your eyes that gentleness And show of love as I was wont to have: You bear too stubborn and too strange a hand Over your friend that loves you. Poor Brutus, with himself at war, Forgets the shows of love to other men.

    Love   War   Eye  
    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 32
  • You also, O son Brutus. [Lat., Et tu, Brute fili.]

    Son   Brutus   Murder  
  • I picture several reviewers of my own books as passing a long future lodged between Brutus and Judas in the jaws of Satan.

    Book   Long   Brutus  
    Stephen Jay Gould (2010). “An Urchin in the Storm: Essays about Books and Ideas”, p.9, W. W. Norton & Company
  • 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.

    Weed   Jesus   Rap  
  • When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff: Yet Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man.

    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [97]
  • The fault is in our stars, dear Brutus: not the glass screen through which we see them.

  • 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

    Fall   Tyrants   Noble  
  • The fame of a battlefield grows with its years; Napoleon storming the Bridge of Lodi, and Wellington surveying the towers of Salamanca, affect us with fainter emotions than Brutus reading in his tent at Philippi, or Richard bearing down with the English chivalry upon the white armies of Saladin.

    Reading   Army   Years  
    Robert Aris WILLMOTT (1851). “Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature”, p.12
  • 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.

  • Like every man who appears at an epoch which is historical and rendered famous by his works, Jesus Christ has a history, a history which the church and the world possess, and which, surrounded by countless memorials, has at least the same authenticity as any other history formed in the same countries, amidst the same peoples and in the same times. As, then, if I would study the lives of Brutus and Cassius, I should calmly open Plutarch, I open the Gospel to study Jesus Christ, and I do so with the same composure.

    Country   Jesus   Men  
  • Watching the debate this afternoon it was apparent they loved term limits in the House - as Brutus loved Caesar.

  • As they spoke, the only thing I could think about was that scene from Julius Caesar where Brutus stabs him in the back. Et tu, Eric?

    Thinking   Eric   Brutus  
    Nicholas Sparks (2011). “A Walk To Remember”, p.40, Hachette UK
  • 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.]

  • 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

    Angel   Cutting   Judging  
    William Shakespeare, William Oxberry, Edwin Booth, Lawrence Barrett, Owen Fawcett (1822). “Julius Caesar: A Tragedy”, p.55
  • I don't care if it's a mystery story, a Western, or the story of Julius Caesar. To me it's the emotion, the lies, the double-cross, whether it's Brutus doing it to Caesar or Bob Stack doing it to Robert Ryan that defines what kind of drama it is.

    Drama   Lying   Deceit  
  • For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men.

    Memorable   Men   Brutus  
    'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 3, sc. 2, l. [79]
  • Et tu Brute! (You too, Brutus!)

  • 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.

    Stars   Cassius   Brutus  
    John Green (2012). “The Fault in Our Stars”, p.80, Penguin UK
  • Caesar had his Brutus, Charles the First his Cromwell; and George the Third — ['Treason!' cried the Speaker] — may profit by their example. If this be treason, make the most of it.

    History   Brutus   Firsts  
    Speech in Virginia House of Burgesses,Williamsburg, Va., May 1765.
  • Dear Alec, As your best friend and parabatai, I am offended not to have been asked to be your best man at the wedding. Et tu, Brutus. -Jace Alec , he really is upset. He hasn't washed his hair in three days. -Clary

    Men   Hair   Upset  
  • Jared glared balefully at the old man, his eyes full of the shock and pain of the betrayed. I had only human comparisons for such a look. Caesar and Brutus, Jesus and Judas.

    Jesus   Pain   Eye  
    Stephenie Meyer (2009). “The Host”, p.217, Hachette UK
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