Rome

You do so often insist on playing the frump!
- Atia of the Julii, on her daughter Octavia choosing a plain necklace over a loud/bold one



I do not want my chariot slowed by giant turds

- Gaius Julius Caesar, requesting no elephants at his

sanctioning as Emperor

Oh GOD your beauty is PAINFUL! You are the crucifix of Venus. Let me die in your arms.
- Mark Antony, greeting Atia of the Julii



You can call a cat a fish but it will not swim
- Marcus Junius Brutus, denying rumours of himself betraying Caesar



I did not know he existed until he didn’t
- Gaius Julius Caesar, on the death of an important magistrate



Brutus you old cock!
- Mark Antony, greeting Brutus

"Affection. Could he not say... love?"

- Servilia of the Junii, on Caesar's letter to her

"Hoho would you have him pluck a harp?? He's a soldier, not a poet!"

- Servant

From the HBO series "Rome"
http://www.hbo.com/rome