“I sometimes think that never blows so red The Rose as where some buried Caesar bled; That every Hyacinth the Garden wears Dropt in her Lap from some once lovely Head”
Edward Fitzgerald
“Poetry is the synthesis of hyacinths and biscuits.”
Carl Sandburg
“For ten years Caesar ruled with an iron hand. Then with a wooden foot, and finally with a piece of string.”
Spike Milligan
“Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.”
William Shakespeare
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones.”
“In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.”
Cleopatra
“Nature must obey necessity. [Julius Caesar]”
