Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from The Tragedy of Antony and Cleopatra.
Choices Quotes
CLEOPATRAHe was disposed to mirth; but on the sudden A Roman thought hath struck him.—Enobarbus! ENOBARBUS Madam? CLEOPATRA Seek him, and bring him hither.—Where's Alexas? ALEXAS Here, at your...
Contrasting Regions Quotes
ANTONYBut stirred by Cleopatra. Now, for the love of Love and her soft hours, Let's not confound the time with conference harsh. There's not a minute of our lives should stretch Without some...
Gender Quotes
CAESAR You may see, Lepidus, and henceforth know, It is not Caesar's natural vice to hate Our great competitor. From Alexandria This is the news: he fishes, drinks, and wastes The lamps of night in...
Betrayal Quotes
CLEOPATRA O, never was there queen So mightily betrayed! Yet at the first I saw the treasons planted. ANTONY ...
Love Quotes
CLEOPATRA If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. CLEOPATRA I'll set a born how far to be beloved. ANTONY Then must thou needs find out new...
Power Quotes
ANTONY Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall. Here is my space. Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike Feeds beast as man. The nobleness of life Is to do thus; when s...
Transformation Quotes
PHILO Those his goodly eyes, That o'er the files and musters of the war Have glow'd like plated Mars, now bend, now turn, The office and devotion of their view Upon a tawny front. His captain's hea...
Guilt and Blame Quotes
ANTONY There's a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it. What our contempts doth often hurl from us, We wish it ours again. The present pleasure, By revolution lowering, does become The opposite o...
Duty Quotes
CAESAR You are too indulgent. Let's grant it is not Amiss to tumble on the bed of Ptolemy, To give a kingdom for a mirth, to sit And keep the turn of tippling with a slave, To reel the streets at n...