Julius Caesar Quotes in Spartacus (1960)

Julius Caesar: I thought you had reservations about the gods.

Gracchus: Privately I believe in none of them - neither do you. Publicly, I believe in them all.

Marcus Licinius Crassus: [about Antoninus and Spartacus] Let them fight now. Unchain them.

Julius Caesar: The entire city's been told, they'll fight tomorrow in the temple of your ancestors.

Marcus Licinius Crassus: They will fight now, for me! Here! And to the death! And the victor will be crucified!

Julius Caesar: [about Spartacus] Did you fear him, Crassus?

Marcus Licinius Crassus: Not when I fought him, I knew he could be beaten. But now I fear him, even more than I fear you.

Julius Caesar: Me?

Marcus Licinius Crassus: Yes, my dear Caesar, you.

Julius Caesar: Rome is the mob.

Marcus Licinius Crassus: No! Rome is an eternal thought in the mind of God.

Julius Caesar: I'd no idea you'd grown religious.

Marcus Licinius Crassus: [laughs] It doesn't matter. If there were no gods at all I'd still revere them. If there were no Rome, I'd dream of her.

Julius Caesar: Is it me you want or is it the garrison?

Marcus Licinius Crassus: [laughs softly] Both.

Julius Caesar: Brutus, stop playing with that knife. You'll end up hurting someone.

Julius Caesar: [speaking of the Grand Eunuch] ... a position not acquired without some, shall we say, sacrifices?

Julius Caesar: You all look so impressive. Any one of you could be king.

Pothinus: His Majesty King Ptolemy, kindred of Horus and Ra, beloved of Thoth...

Julius Caesar: Et cetera, et cetera; you welcome me. And I, Gaius Julius Caesar, Consul of the Roman Senate, Pontifex Maximus, et cetera, et cetera, thank you.

Julius Caesar: Two hours until dawn. We will hold where we are.

Agrippa: And what happens at dawn?

Julius Caesar: I thought you knew. The sun comes up.

Julius Caesar: Germanicus! A guard to escort Queen Cleopatra to her apartments.

Germanicus: Guard!

Cleopatra: The corridors are dark gentlemen, but you mustn't be afraid. I am with you.

Julius Caesar: [after the execution of Pothinus] Return Apollodorus's dagger to him, but clean it first. It has Pothinus all over it.

Julius Caesar: [to Cleopatra] You, a descendant of generations of inbred, incestuous, mental defectives!

Cleopatra: Catullus doesn't approve of you. Why haven't you had him killed?

Julius Caesar: Because *I* approve of *him.*

Julius Caesar: Ah, yes. I seem to recall some mention of an obsession you have about your divinity... Isis, is it not?

Cleopatra: I shall have to insist that you mind what you say. I AM Isis. I am worshipped by millions who believe it. You are not to confuse what I am with the so-called divine origin which every Roman general seems to acquire together with his shield. It was, uh, Venus you chose to be descended from, wasn't it?

Agrippa: Nothing bores me so much as an intellectual!

Julius Caesar: Makes a better admiral of you, Agrippa.

Julius Caesar: Why should the eyes of a statue always be without life?

Julius Caesar: Cowards die many times before their deaths; / The valiant never taste of death but once.

Julius Caesar: [after being stabbed by Brutus] Et tu, Brute? Then fall, Caesar!

Julius Caesar: And so to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right, and justice, and peace, until the gods create a race of men that can understand.

Julius Caesar: Go, Ptolemy. Always take a throne when it is offered to you.

Julius Caesar: What's the matter?

Cleopatra: You're bald! That's why you wear the wreath!

Julius Caesar: Is it sweet or bitter to be a queen?

Cleopatra: Bitter.

Julius Caesar: Cast out fear, and you will conquer Caeser.

Cleopatra: Together we could conquer the world.

Julius Caesar: Nice of you to include me.

Cleopatra: It seems strange to see you working. I've always pictured you either fighting or loving.

Julius Caesar: Well, I have had some experience with fighting.

Cleopatra: But none with loving, I suppose.

Julius Caesar: Well, none with pretty little queens.

Cleopatra: I had to walk miles across the desert to the sea... to find the fishing boat that brought me to you. But just seeing you is magic, immortal Caesar.

Julius Caesar: That's quite a speech. Your tongue is no longer bewitched by Caesar, eh?

Cleopatra: No. It's my heart now.

Cleopatra: Come to my chambers and dine. We'll make such plans.

Julius Caesar: Are your plans for India or me?

Cleopatra: Both! Shouldn't a Queen choose as her confident, a King?

Julius Caesar: Shhh! The word King is not well liked in Rome.

Cleopatra: Caesar takes what he wants.

Cleopatra: If I implored you to marry me, you wouldn't?

Julius Caesar: I'd have to ask my wife in Rome.

Cleopatra: [laughs] Oh, as if you care about that. Divorce her. Together we could conquer the world!

Cleopatra: Let's not talk any more.

Julius Caesar: I picked a flower in Britain once, the color of your eyes.

Soothsayer: Caesar. Caesar! Beware of the ides of March.

Julius Caesar: One dates as good as another for a funeral.

[laughs]

Soothsayer: Beware!

Julius Caesar: What's this? Antony hates women too?

[laughs]

Marc Antony: Out of their place, I do. They have no place amongst men! They can't think and they can't fight. They're just playthings for us.

Julius Caesar: Most of them.

Marc Antony: All of them!

Julius Caesar: For what I have done, Calpurnia, pardon. For what I'm about to do, courage.

Cleopatra: Nothing must happen to you, my Caesar.

Julius Caesar: Nothing will!

Soothsayer: Caesar, I warned you, the ides of March.

Julius Caesar: The ides of March are here!

Soothsayer: But, not gone!

Julius Caesar: You? You too, Brutus?

Julius Caesar: Infamy, infamy. They've all got it in for me.

Cleopatra: [to Hengist who is dressed as Caesar] You do not look like your bust.

Julius Caesar: [who is dressed as Hengist] No, he's not. He's just a bit cracked.

[running gag]

Julius Caesar: Friends, Romans...

Whoever happens to be next to him: Countrymen.

Julius Caesar: I know!

[Of the Britons]

Mark Antony: You know I just don't get these Britons; everytime we get a good punch up going, someone behind the line yells "Teas up!" and they all disappear!

Julius Caesar: "Teas up"? How very odd! It must be one of these strange gods they worship, like this other one they're always talking about, "Crumpet."

Mark Antony: What?

Julius Caesar: "Crum-pet", I don't understand it at all.

Mark Antony: You know something; I don't think these Britons don't want to be conquered.

Julius Caesar: I've cleaned up this city. Have you forgotten my slogan? 'Nihil expectore in omnibus' - no spitting on the public transport.

Bilius: Caesar, there is a messenger here without.

Julius Caesar: I'm not surprised, if we stay here much longer we'll all be without.

[Reading a letter from Seneca]

Mark Antony: Hello - there is news from Egypt, Ptolemy is trying to usurp Cleopatra.

Julius Caesar: Trying to do what with her?

Mark Antony: Usurp her.

Julius Caesar: Sound positively revolting.

Julius Caesar: Tony!

Mark Antony: Julie! I caught you with your toga up!

Julius Caesar: Oh yes, I'm sorry I've caught something, one of these local things I can't seem to shake off. It's called "a-stinking-cold"!

Bilius: I'm sorry Caesar but for the good of Rome, you must die!

Julius Caesar: But you're my personal bodyguard and champion gladiator, I don't want to die! I may not be a very good live emperor but I'd be a worse one dead!

Brutus: The senate are worried about matters in the east, the affairs involving Ptolemy and Cleopatra.

Julius Caesar: Are they having an affair? Oh do tell!

Julius Caesar: ...beware the nuts in May.