 It was also quoted by George Clooney's character in the Coen brothers film "Intolerable Cruelty".The line "And therefore think him as a serpent's egg / Which hatch'd, would, as his kind grow mischievous; And kill him in the shell" spoken by Brutus in Act II, Scene 1, is referenced in the Dead Kennedys song "California Über Alles".The titles of Agatha Christie novel "Taken at the Flood", titled "There is a Tide" in its American edition, refer to an iconic line of Brutus