The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Yesterday the bird of night did sit,
Even at noon-day, upon the market-place,
Hooting and shrieking.
‘Julius Caesar’ (1599) act 1, sc. 3, l. 26
Cassius from bondage will deliver Cassius.
‘Julius Caesar’ (1599) act 1, sc. 3, l. 90
Nor stony tower, nor walls of beaten brass,
Nor airless dungeon, nor strong links of iron,
Can be retentive to the strength of spirit;
But life, being weary of these worldly bars,
Never lacks power to dismiss itself.
‘Julius Caesar’ (1599) act 1, sc. 3, l. 93
It is the bright day that brings forth the adder;
And that craves wary walking.
‘Julius Caesar’ (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 14
’Tis a common proof,
That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder,
Whereto the climber-upward turns his face;
But when he once attains the upmost round,
He then unto the ladder turns his back,
Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees
By which he did ascend.
‘Julius Caesar’ (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 21
Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream:
The genius and the mortal instruments
Are then in council; and the state of man,
Like to a little kingdom, suffers then
The nature of an insurrection.
‘Julius Caesar’ (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 63
O conspiracy!
Sham’st thou to show thy dangerous brow by night,
When evils are most free?
‘Julius Caesar’ (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 77
Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.
‘Julius Caesar’ (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 166
Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods,
Not hew him as a carcass fit for hounds.
‘Julius Caesar’ (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 173