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Summary Antony and Cleopatra Quotes
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Antony & Cleopatra Quotes:Antony: • “ne’er-lust-wearied Antony” – never tired of sex/love
• “like plated Mars” • “noble Antony”
• “And is become the bellows and the fan” • “broken the article of your oath”
• “to cool a gipsy’s love” • “The honour is sacred which he talks on now,
• “the triple pillar of the world transformed into a supposing that I lacked it” – Antony recognizes that he
strumpet’s fool” has broken an oath, honourable thing
• “There’s beggary in the love that can be • “The best of men”
reckoned” • “The heart of brothers govern in our love” – Antony
marries Octavia then Ant&Caeser become brothers
• “Grates me! the sum”
• “Pays his heart for what his eyes eat only” – Love
• “Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch of at first site
the ranged empire fall! Here is my space”
• “Never; he will not” – he will never leave Cleopatra
• “Marry Fulvia and not love her”
• “The world, and my great office will sometimes
• “when he is not Antony” divide me from your bosom” – when he leaves Octavia
• “A Roman thought hath struck him” • “O Antony, stay not by his side” – by Caesar’s side
• “Let him appear. These strong Egyptian fetters I • “Make space enough between you” – between him
must break” and Caesar
• “Cannot endure my absence” • “And though I make this marriage for my peace,
in the East my pleasure lies”
• “The greatest soldier of the world”
• “He’s bound unto Octavia”
• “My full heart remains in use with you”
• “Then is Caesar and he for ever knit together”
• “I go from hence thy soldier, servant, making
peace or war as though affects” • “The policy of that purpose made more in the
• “This Herculean Roman” marriage than the love of the parties” ”– politically
expedient marriage
• “Your honour calls you hence”
• “He will to his Egyptian dish again”
• “Waste the lamps of the night in revel”
• “Antony will use his affection where it is. He
• “That all men follow”
married but his occasion here”
• “To give a kingdom for a mirth” • “Good brother”
• “It wounds they honour that I speak it now” • “most noble Antony”
• “The demi-Atlas of this earth, the arm and • “You shall not find the least cause for what you
burgonet of war”
seem to fear” – says he will look after Octavia
• “Firm Roman”
• “Spoke scantly of me” – Caesar spoke of Antony
• “brave Antony” • “If I lose mine honour, I lose myself”
• “My man of men” • “give up [him]self merely to chance and hazard
• “His soldiership is twice the other twain” from firm security”
, • “so our leader’s led and we are women’s men” • “O my fortunes have corrupted honest men”
• “had our general been what he knew himself, it • “Antony may seem to spend his fury upon
had gone well. O he has given example for our himself”
flight” • “Your emperor continues still a Jove”
• “the wounded chance of Antony” • “This blows my heart”
• “I am so lated in the world that I have lost my • “I would they’ld fight it in fire or in the air, we’ld
way for ever” fight there too
• “I have fled myself” • “Antony is valiant and dejected”
• “I followed that I blush to look upon” • “All is lost!”
• “I have lost command” • “this foul Egyptian hath betrayed me”
• “is unqualitied with very shame” • “For when I am revenged upon my charm I have
• “[has] offended reputation; a most noble done all”
swerving” • “Fortune and Antony depart here”
• “stroyed in dishonour” • “this pine bark”
• “give me a kiss, even this repays me” • “betrayed I am”
• “How much you were my conqueror!” – Tells • “beguiled me to the very heart of loss”
Cleo • “let him take thee and hoist thee up to the
• “My sword made weak by my affection” shouting plebeians”
• “Love I am full of lead” • “To the young Roman boy she hath sold me”
• “Observe how Antony becomes his flaw” • “I made these wars for Egypt”
• “all-disgracèd friend” • “whose heart I thought I had, for she had mine”
• “Try thy cunning” • “false played my glory unto an enemy’s triumph”
• “his emptiness” • “no more a soldier”
• “The scars upon your honour” • “the torch is out”
• “He is a god and knows what is most right” • “the worship of the whole world lies”
• “Sir, Sir, thou art so leaky” • “I will be a bridegroom in my death”
• “Authority melts from me”
• “I have done my work ill, friends”
• “I am Antony yet”
• “The fall of Antony” • “the star is fallen”
• “brave lord” • “I am dying, Egypt, dying”
• “he’ll outstare the lightning” • “the crown of the earth doth melt”
• “a dimunition in our captain’s brain restores his • “none but Antony should conquer Antony”
heart” • “A Roman by a Roman, valiantly vanquished”
• “the old ruffian” • “withered is the garland of the war”
• “ ‘Tis the god Hercules, whom Antony loved,
now leaves him”
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