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Quotation from Mark Antony's Funeral Oration ("Friends, Romans, countrymen") by William Shakespeare
“Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones;”
Mark Antony's Funeral Oration ("Friends, Romans, countrymen"), Act 3, Scene 2 (opening of the oration) (Project Gutenberg #1522, modern spelling)
Antony begins by seeming to accept Brutus's terms and to concede that Caesar's faults will be remembered.
Citation: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones;" — William Shakespeare, Mark Antony's Funeral Oration ("Friends, Romans, countrymen"), Act 3, Scene 2 (opening of the oration) (Project Gutenberg #1522, modern spelling). (id friends-romans-countrymen-q1)
Portrait: Marc Antony's Oration at Caesar's Funeral by George Edward Robertson, George Edward Robertson b. 1864, Public domain.
