(20 quotes found)
“et tu brute?”
William Shakespeare
“Consider your origin; you were not born to live like brutes, but to follow virtue and knowledge.”
Dante Alighieri
“Consider your origins: you were not made that you might live as brutes, but so as to follow virtue and knowledge”
“The scholar without good breeding is a nitpicker; the philosopher a cynic; the soldier a brute and everyone else disagreeable.”
Lord Chesterfield
“Et tu, Brute? Then fall Caeser.”
Julius Caesar
“For where the instrument of intelligence is added to brute power and evil will, mankind is powerless in its own defense.”
“My arms have mutinied against me — brutes!My fingers fidget like ten idle brats,My back's been stiff for hours, damned hours.Death never gives his squad a Stand-at-ease.”
Wilfred Owen
“We're going to need more than just brute enforcement,”
Michael Chertoff
“All generous minds have a horror of what are commonly called ''facts.'' They are the brute beasts of the intellectual domain. Who does not know fellows that always have an ill-conditioned fact or two that they lead after them into decent company like so many bull-dogs, ready to let them slip at every ingenious suggestion, or convenient generalization, or pleasant fancy? I allow no ''facts'' at this table.”
Oliver Wendell Holmes
“[Of a husband] Feed the brute.”
George Du Maurier
