Brutus is an honorable man

Cultural  

1. A statement made several times in a speech by Mark Antony in the play Julius Caesar, by William Shakespeare. The speech is Antony's funeral oration over Caesar, whom Brutus (see also Brutus) has helped kill. “Brutus is an honorable man” is ironic, as Antony is attempting to portray Brutus as ungrateful and treacherous. He succeeds in turning the Roman people against Brutus and the other assassins.

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Example Sentences

McSweeny deploys actors all around the Blackfriars Theatre space and has the furious rabble all but drown out Kent as he begins Marc Antony’s “Friends, Romans, countrymen” eulogy; the crowd’s switching of allegiance to Antony as he repeats that rhetorical device dripping with irony — “For Brutus is an honorable man” — is rarely so crisply revealed.

From Washington Post

And Brutus is an honorable man.

From Washington Post

I’m not going to serve as a character witness, nor deliver some kind of “Brutus is an honorable man” speech.

From Salon

Let’s back that up: This movie doesn’t suck all that much, and Brutus is an honorable man.

From Salon

Ms. Aquino’s “Brutus is an honorable man” speech is so moving that I wish it could be the end of the play.

From New York Times