"I'd rather have men who are fat and jolly than lean and hungry."
2007-10-27 03:09:06 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
It's in Shakespeare's 'Julius Caesar' - 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. (act 1, sc 2, l.191). It's a quote from Plutarch - JC apparently said he had no fear of fat men, rather he feared the pale and thin ones.
2007-10-27 03:59:46 · answer #1 · answered by derfini 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Actually it was Shakespeare who said it - or rather put the words in the mouth of the actor playing Julius Ceasar
2007-10-27 04:05:29 · answer #2 · answered by Spanishscotty 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Julius Ceasar became murdered by utilising 2 of his close friends, they stabbed him repeatedly, he mentioned "you too Brutus", and that i Caesar's component is that if Brutus can not replace Caesar's strategies, no you possibly can.
2016-10-14 04:55:10 · answer #3 · answered by Erika 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, not exactly. He is known for saying something similar, for saying this:
" Yond Cassius has a lean and hungry look; He thinks too much: such men are dangerous "
Author: William Shakespeare
Content: Famous Julius Caesar quotes
(Act I, Scene II)
Examples of other Famous Julius Caesar quotes:
"Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him". - (Act III, Scene II).
"But, for my own part, it was Greek to me". - (Act I, Scene II).
"A dish fit for the gods". - (Act II, Scene I).
"Cry "Havoc," and let slip the dogs of war". - (Act III, Scene I).
"Et tu, Brute!" - (Act III, Scene I).
"Men at some time are masters of their fates: The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings". - (Act I, Scene II).
"Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more". - (Act III, Scene II).
"Beware the ides of March". - (Act I, Scene II).
"This was the noblest Roman of them all". - (Act V, Scene V).
"When that the poor have cried, Caesar hath wept: Ambition should be made of sterner stuff". - (Act III, Scene II).
"For Brutus is an honourable man; So are they all, all honourable men". - (Act III, Scene II).
"As he was valiant, I honor him; but, as he was ambitious, I slew him" . - (Act III, Scene II).
"Cowards die many times before their deaths; The valiant never taste of death but once.
Of all the wonders that I yet have heard, it seems to me most strange that men should fear;
Seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come". - (Act II, Scene II).
2007-10-27 03:53:18 · answer #4 · answered by R u kidding me?! 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I doubt that very much. Fat and jolly...those attibutes do not make very efficient soldiers
2007-10-27 03:17:47 · answer #5 · answered by robert43041 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, it was Asterix the Gaul.
2007-10-27 05:18:50 · answer #6 · answered by jenesuispasunnombre 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I thought it was Ronald McDonald.
2007-10-27 03:16:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
No, he didn't speak english.
2007-10-27 06:42:41 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, sumo Hiyoshi did
2007-10-27 03:13:59 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋