Cassius Quotes

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Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me! - young Cassius Clay to heavily favored thug Sonny Liston during the weigh in before Cassius wins his first title and changes his name to Muhammad Ali.

Let me have men about me that are fat, Sleek-headed-men, and such as sleep o'nights; Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; he thinks too much; such men are dangerous.

Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him.

If Ali says a mosquito can pull a plow, don't ask how. Hitch him up.

Cassius Clay must be beaten and the Black Muslims' scourge removed from boxing.

Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself are much condemned to have an itching palm.

Every time I look in the mirror, God looks back.

He [Cassius Clay] became a Black Muslim, which is a pseudo-religion for unbright neurotics who feel the need to hate all white people.

If they ever let me in the ring with him [Cassius Clay], I'm liable to be put away for murder.

The world’s champ should be pretty like me!

Forever, and forever, farewell, Cassius! If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made.

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.]

Every time I look in the mirror, I see that kid from Louisville, Kentucky, staring back at me. His name was Cassius Clay.

Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats, For I am armed so strong in honesty That they pass by me as the idle wind

So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.

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.

I was born free as Caesar; so were you

Into what dangers would you lead me, Cassius, That you would have me seek into myself For that which is not in me?

Let me have men about me that are fat... Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look. He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

No, Cassius; for the eye sees not itself, But by reflection, by some other things.

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!

When trying a case [the famous judge] L. Cassius never failed to inquire "Who gained by it?" Man's character is such that no one undertakes crimes without hope of gain.

Really what Brutus and Cassius do by assassinating Caesar, is open up a vacuum into which much more ruthless people run. Julius Caesar is an amazingly contemporary, resonant, politically astute play.

If you want it, boys, get it here, thing.