𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒓𝒂𝒈𝒆𝒅𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒋𝒖𝒍𝒊𝒖𝒔 𝒄𝒂𝒆𝒔𝒂𝒓 ( 𝟏𝟓𝟗𝟗 ) sentence starters .
♡ inspired by the play written by william shakespeare . add context & change gendered language to your needs . content warning for suicidal ideation & graphic violence . happy writing .ᐟ
❝ why are you wearing your best clothes ? ❞
❝ i don’t meddle in politics or chase women. ❞
❝ you ought to pray for god to spare you of the pain you deserve. ❞
❝ if we take away [name]’s support, he’ll be forced to come back down to earth. ❞
❝ whatever you want me to do, consider it done. ❞
❝ i’m not competitive like you. ❞
❝ don’t let me hinder you. ❞
❝ i’ve noticed that you haven’t been as affectionate toward me lately. ❞
❝ you’ve been like a stranger to me, your friend who loves you. ❞
❝ if i seem guarded, it’s not your fault. i just have a lot on my mind. ❞
❝ i don’t like to trouble my friends. and i consider you a good friend. ❞
❝ i’m at war with myself. i’ve forgotten how to show affection to others. ❞
❝ i misunderstood you … i kept how i felt to myself because i thought you wouldn’t care. ❞
❝ just what are you trying to do, asking me to look inside myself for something i won’t find ? ❞
❝ i’ll be the mirror that shows you the things about yourself that you can’t see. ❞
❝ my friendship is not worthless. i don’t make the same promises to everybody. ❞
❝ if you ever hear me flattering men just to slander them behind their backs, feel free to call me ‘dangerous’ then. ❞
❝ if it’s for the greater good, i’ll do it. even if i have to die. ❞
❝ i love honor more than i fear death. ❞
❝ your virtue is as familiar to me as your face. ❞
❝ i’d rather die than worship a man as ordinary as i am. ❞
❝ i was born just as free as he was. so were you. ❞
❝ it amazes me that such a weak man could hold the whole world in the palm of his hand. ❞
❝ sometimes, men can be masters of their fate. ❞
❝ the fault is not in our stars, but in us. ❞
❝ what’s so special about [name] ? why should that name be proclaimed any more than ours ? ❞
❝ [place] has lost the breed of noble bloods. ❞
❝ i have no doubt that you love me. ❞
❝ i understand what you want me to do … and i’m asking you, as a friend, to not try to persuade me anymore. ❞
❝ i’m glad that i could light even a small fire in you. ❞
❝ he thinks too much. men like him are dangerous. ❞
❝ if i were capable of being afraid of anyone, it would be you. ❞
❝ you tugged on my shirt. do you have something to say ? ❞
❝ tell me what happened today that put you in such a bad mood. ❞
❝ will you have dinner with me tonight ? tomorrow ? ❞
❝ if i’m still alive, and you’re still sane, after all of this is over, we’ll have dinner. ❞
❝ good men should stick only to the company of other good men. ❞
❝ we either take him down, or suffer worse than we are now. ❞
❝ men are meant to tremble when the gods send warning signs. ❞
❝ our father’s minds are dead, and we are governed with our mother’s spirits. ❞
❝ i will die by my own dagger to save myself from being enslaved. ❞
❝ if you ever grow weary of life, you always have the option to end it. ❞
❝ i can shake off the tyranny that oppresses me whenever i choose. ❞
❝ every bondman in his own hand bears the power to cancel his captivity. ❞
❝ he couldn’t be a lion if you weren’t such easy prey. ❞
❝ those who want to make a mighty fire must start with weak straws. ❞
❝ i might be speaking to a willing bondman, in which case, i’ll pay for my words. ❞
❝ i am armed. i don’t care about danger. ❞
❝ evil can come from good, just as poisonous snakes tend to come out into the open on bright, sunny days. ❞
❝ think of [name] like a serpent’s egg — once it has hatched, it becomes dangerous, like all serpents do. we have to kill him while he’s still in the shell. ❞
❝ from the time you first decide to do something horrible to the moment you do it, everything feels unreal, like a hideous dream. ❞
❝ are you ashamed to show your face even at night, when evil is most free ? where will you find a cave dark enough to hide your monstrous face by daybreak ? ❞
❝ your strange mood hasn’t let you eat, or talk, or sleep. if it changed your outside as much as it has affected your insides, i wouldn’t even be able to recognize you. ❞
❝ as your partner, shouldn’t i know about what’s troubling you ? or am i only part of you sometimes — to keep you company at dinner, keep your bed warm, and talk to you every now and then ? ❞
❝ tell me your secrets. i won’t betray you. ❞
❝ i’ve given myself a wound here on my thigh to prove my loyalty to you. if i can bear that pain, i can bear your secrets. ❞
❝ i’ll follow you anywhere. i’m satisfied, knowing that you’re leading me. ❞
❝ when beggars die, there are no comets. the heavens only announce the deaths of princes. ❞
❝ cowards die many times before their deaths. the valiant never taste death but once. ❞
❝ it’s strange to me that men fear death, seeing that death, a necessary end, will come when it will come. ❞
❝ your wisdom is consumed in confidence. ❞
❝ don’t be so foolish as to think you can sway me from what’s right by using the tactics that persuade fools. ❞
❝ if you kneel and beg and flatter me, i will kick you out of my way like a begging dog. ❞
❝ i could live a thousand years and i wouldn’t be as ready to die as i am right now. ❞
❝ there’s no place i’d rather die than by your side. ❞
❝ it’s true that i loved you. nothing could be truer. ❞
❝ if i had as many eyes as you have wounds, and they wept as fast as your wounds stream blood, even that would be better than joining your enemies in friendship. ❞
❝ the evil that men do lives after them, but the good is often buried with them. ❞
❝ bear with me. my heart is in the coffin there with him. ❞
❝ i haven’t come to steal away your heart. ❞
❝ what has he done to deserve your love ? ❞
❝ i don’t think of you as any more than property. a means to an end. ❞
❝ even some that smile in our faces are plotting against us. ❞
❝ when love begins to sicken and decay, it makes way for dishonesty. ❞
❝ you have done me wrong. ❞
❝ if you were anyone else and said that to me, those words would be your last. ❞
❝ i’d rather be a dog howling at the moon than that kind of man. ❞
❝ you’re forgetting yourself if you’re trying to corner me. ❞
❝ if you care about your health, you won’t provoke me any further. ❞
❝ leave. you little man. ❞
❝ don’t take my love for granted. i may do something i’ll be sorry for. ❞
❝ don’t you have enough love for me to bear with me when the bad temper i inherited from my mother makes me forgetful ? ❞
❝ from now on, when you get moody with me, i’ll assume it’s your mother speaking. ❞
❝ you’d have to kill me to stop me. ❞
❝ i didn’t think you could get this angry. ❞
❝ no one bears sorrow better than me. ❞
❝ great men ought to endure great losses. ❞
❝ good words are better than bad strokes, [name]. ❞
❝ you’re not going to be killed by a traitor unless you kill yourself. ❞
❝ i wasn’t born to die on your sword. ❞
❝ this might be the last time we’ll speak to each other. ❞
❝ i find it cowardly and vile to kill yourself early to evade accountability. ❞
❝ if we lose, you’ll be content to be paraded through the streets in chains ? ❞
❝ i will never allow myself to return to [place] in chains. ❞
❝ i’ve become an enemy to my own soldiers. ❞
❝ today is the day i breathed my first breath. time has come around, and i’ll end where i began. ❞
❝ my life has run its compass. ❞
❝ i’m a coward for living long enough to see my best friend taken before my very eyes. ❞
❝ you shall be revenged by the very same sword that killed you. ❞
❝ so i am free. but i didn’t want to be free like this. ❞
❝ i’ll run far from this place, where no one will ever find me. ❞
❝ our sun has set. our day is over. we’re finished. ❞
❝ you are still mighty. ❞
❝ the world will never produce another like you. ❞
❝ i owe you more tears than you’ll ever see me shed. ❞
❝ surrender, or you will die. ❞
❝ i would rather have you as a friend than an enemy. ❞
❝ i’d rather kill myself. ❞
❝ i know that my hour has come. ❞
❝ our enemies have driven us to the edge of the grave. ❞
❝ i ask that you hold my sword handle while i run into it. ❞
❝ that is no job for a friend. ❞
❝ he was the noblest man of them all. ❞
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