Gaius Julius Caesar Quotes

You’ll make a lot of men very angry with your Gauls, and your Celts, and your plebs and such. I’ll have to double your guard.[Mark Antony]That’s what I told him. Will he listen?[Posca]Guards can keep my enemies away. They can do nothing about my friends.[Gaius Julius Caesar]

You are a thief. A foolish, incompetent thief. But you have served us well in the past. So, we will pretend your foolishness is a species of honesty and let you go unpunished.[to Pullo]

We will accept battle?[Posca]Certainly. Why not?[Gaius Julius Caesar]We are outnumbered, three to one on foot and five to one on horse. What uninjured men we have are scared and hungry and desperate.[Posca]That is the advantage we must press home.[Gaius Julius Caesar]I was not aware irony had military usage.[Posca]We must win or die. Pompey’s men have other options.[Gaius Julius Caesar]

Never question my judgment in the presence of our enemies. You have a good memory, so you will remember that.[to Antony]

Make sure the elephants are given their emetics in good time. I don’t want my chariot slowed by giant turds.[to Posca]

In future you will remember that it is I that offers mercy. No one else.

I’m glad you’re so confident. Some would call it hubris.[Mark Antony]It’s only hubris if I fail.[Gaius Julius Caesar]

I often wish I were back in Gaul. There is something pleasingly simple about warfare.[to Vorenus]

I have never doubted your friendship or fidelity. Even when we were enemies.[to Brutus]

I have conquered Gaul. I have defeated Pompey Magnus. I think I can handle a small boy and a eunuch.[to Antony and Posca]

I do not like to quarrel with fortune, and clearly, she’s taken you for a pet.[to Pullo]

[about Vorenus and Pullo]I do not like to disagree with you, but you are being far too lenient with him. He let Pompey go, and you let him live? The man should be made an example of![Mark Antony]Any other man, certainly. But those two… They found my stolen standard. Now, they survive a wreck that drowned an army, and find Pompey Magnus on a beach. They have powerful gods on their side, and I will not kill any man with friends of that sort.[Gaius Julius Caesar]