John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Shakespeare. (1564–1616) (continued) |
| 1285 |
| 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. |
| Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1286 |
| He reads much; He is a great observer, and he looks Quite through the deeds of men. |
| Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1287 |
| Seldom he smiles, and smiles in such a sort As if he mock’d himself, and scorn’d his spirit That could be moved to smile at anything. |
| Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1288 |
| But, for my own part, it was Greek to me. |
| Julius Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2. |
| 1289 |
| ’T is a common proof, That lowliness is young ambition’s ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost 1 round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. |
| Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 1290 |
| 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 Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 1291 |
| A dish fit for the gods. |
| Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 1292 |
| But when I tell him he hates flatterers, He says he does, being then most flattered. |
| Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 1293 |
| Boy! Lucius! Fast asleep? It is no matter; Enjoy the honey-heavy dew of slumber: Thou hast no figures nor no fantasies, Which busy care draws in the brains of men; Therefore thou sleep’st so sound. |
| Julius Cæsar. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| Note 1. ”Utmost” in Singer. [back] |