Shakespeare's Julius Caesar is a treasure trove of quotations that have become a part of present-day culture. Here are the ten most famous of them all.

1.
Beware the ides of March.
(1.2.23), Soothsayer

2.
Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!
(3.1.77), Cæsar

3.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;
I come to bury Cæsar, not to praise him.
The evil that men do lives after them;
The good is oft interred with their bones;
So let it be with Caesar.
(3.2.79-83), Antony

4.
It was Greek to me.
(1.2.289), Casca

5.
Cowards die many times before their deaths;
The valiant never taste of death but once.
(2.2.34), Cæsar

6.
This was the noblest Roman of them all.
(5.5.75), Antony

7.
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.
(1.2.146-8), Cassius

8.
This was the most unkindest cut of all.
(3.2.193), Antony

9.
Let’s carve him as a dish fit for the gods.
(2.1.173), Brutus

10.
Not that I loved Cæsar less, but that I loved Rome more.
(3.2.23), Brutus

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