Julius Caesar (AQA GCSE English Literature): Revision Notes

Julius Caesar: Key quotations

Below is a list of all of the quotations we have covered organised by character and theme:

Power and Ambition

1. Julius Caesar: "I am constant as the Northern Star."
2. Julius Caesar: "The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power."
3. Cassius: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."
4. Cassius: "I was born free as Caesar; so were you."

Betrayal and Loyalty

1. Brutus: "Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more."
2. Julius Caesar: "Et tu, Brute?"
3. Mark Antony: "Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears."
4. Mark Antony: "This was the most unkindest cut of all."

Fate vs. Free Will

1. Julius Caesar: "Men at some time are masters of their fates."
2. Cassius: "The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves."

Public vs. Private Lives

1. Brutus: "Let me have men about me that are fat."
2. Portia: "I have a man's mind, but a woman's might."
3. Portia: "Think you I am no stronger than my sex, being so fathered and so husbanded?"