Julius Caesar (1953)

Ned Glass: Cobbler

Quotes 

• Cobbler : Sir, we make holiday to see Caesar and to rejoice in his triumph.

  Marullus : Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? What tributaries follow him to Rome, to grace in captive bonds his chariot wheels? You blocks, you stones, you worse than senseless things! O you hard hearts, you cruel men of Rome, knew you not Pompey? Many a time and oft have you climbed up to walls and battlements, to towers and windows, yea, to chimney tops, your infants in your arms, and there have sat the live-long day with patient expectation to see great Pompey pass the streets of Rome. And when you saw his chariot but appear, have you not made a universal shout, that Tiber trembled underneath her banks, to hear the replication of your sounds made in her concave shores?

• Flavius : What trade are you?

  Cobbler : Truly, sir, in respect of a fine workman, I am but, as you would say, a cobbler.

  Flavius : But what trade art thou? Answer me directly.

  Cobbler : A trade, sir, that I hope, I may use with a safe conscience, which is indeed, sir, a mender of bad soles.

  Flavius : But wherefore art not in thy shop today? Why dost thou lead these men about the streets?

  Cobbler : Truly, sir, to wear out their shoes, to get myself into more work.