Posted on 09/27/2024 9:35:09 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
A lot of history’s famous quotes are either misattributed or were never spoken in the first place. In addition to the fact that Gandhi never said, “Be the change you wish to see in the world,” and no one aboard Apollo 13 ever uttered the phrase, “Houston, we have a problem,” Julius Caesar didn’t say, “Et tu, Brute?” (“You too, Brutus?”) as he was stabbed to death by a group of Roman senators that included his supposed bestie. The line comes from Shakespeare’s play The Tragedy of Julius Caesar and is followed by its protagonist’s last words, “Then fall, Caesar” — as though the betrayal made him lose his will to live more than the stab wounds.
Caesar’s actual last words — or whether he even had the breath to speak any — are unknown. Most ancient scholars, including Roman historians Plutarch and Cassius Dio, believe he said nothing at all, but mention that other sources claim he spoke in Greek: “καὶ σύ, τέκνον,” roughly translating to “You too, my child?” In any case, March 15 — the date of Caesar’s assassination in 44 BCE, better known as the Ides of March — has since become associated with doom and foreboding.
There’s another famous quote attributed to Brutus himself, who’s believed to have shouted, “Sic semper tyrannis” — “Thus always to tyrants” — as he stabbed Caesar. There’s just one problem, though, and you can likely guess what it is: There’s no evidence that Brutus said this or anything else while fatally betraying his former friend and ally. The Latin saying has stood the test of time nevertheless; in fact, John Wilkes Booth actually said it after he assassinated Abraham Lincoln. He did so 89 years after Virginia made the phrase its state motto and put it on the state seal.
“The confederates couldn’t hit an elephant at this dis…” - Maj. General John Sedgwick
“Play it again, Sam”
If I had a bunch of knives sticking in me, I don't think I could say that sentence past "The."
Mayor of Hiroshima (and Nagasaki, probably):
“What was that?!”
He was the first to say, “B*tch stole my look!!!”
He didn’t know the “sign”either. Should have known what the sign was for the Scipio Africanus Boys.
Thanks SeekAndFind.
C’mon guys, it’s either “Gunfight at the O.K. Corral” in Morse Code, or the smoke signal version of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes.”
MacArthur said, “I shall return (this book to the library, it’s six weeks overdue)”.
Like false quoting movies. Bogart didn’t say “ play it again Sam”. Cary Grant never uttered “Judy, Judy, Judy”.
Sorry I can’t find an image online, but a classic National Lampoon cartoon (probably S.Gross) was of a group of thugs beating up a fag with and another fag throwing a punch at him.
The victim fag said, “Et tu, Bruce?”
(I’m sure it’s out there but the “web” has cleaned it up)
Pancho Villa was ambushed in his car, like Bonnie and Clyde.
Once on radio I heard it said that Sherlock Holmes never said “Elementary, my dear
Watson”. He said either “Elementary” or
“My dear Watson” but never the two together
Yes the first was something like “you played it for her, you can play it for me”.
Someone imitating Grant was on a talk show and Judy Garland was another guest and somehow people started to imagine Grant saying Judy Judy Judy
Goliath: You have a couple of Stones kid to face me, I’ll give you that much!
Kirk never said, “Beam me up, Scotty.”
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We have NO idea what he said; BUT
Julius Caesar never said, “Et tu, Brute?”
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