Antony and Cleopatra quotes Flashcards
Philo - talking about Antony
Nay, but this dotage of our general’s/O’erflows the measure
Philo - Triumvert
The triple pillar of the world transformed/Into a strumpet’s fool.
Antony - Let Rome in Tiber melt
Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch/Of the ranged empire fall!
Enorbarbus - talking about Cleopatra
We cannot call her winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report
Caesar- talking about Antony
You shall find there/A man who is abstract of all faults/That all men follow.”
Enorbarbus - truth
That truth should be silent I had almost forgot.
Enorbarbus - describes Cleopatra
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale/Her infinite variety. Other women cloy/The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry/Where most she satisfies.
Cleopatra - melt Egypt into the Nile
Some innocents scape not the thunderbolt./Melt Egypt into the Nile, and kindly creature/Turn all to serpents.
Cleopatra - Rome
Sink Rome, and their tongues rot/That speak against us!
Scarus - talking about Antony leaving battle
Antony,/Claps on his sea wing, and, like a doting mallard,/Leaving the flight in height, flies after her.
Antony - talking about Egypt
Egypt, thou knews’t too well/My heart was to thy rudder tied by th’strings/And thou shouldst tow me after.
Antony- mad at Cleopatra
O, thy vile lady!/She has robbed me of my sword.
Cleopatra’s last words
What should I stay?
Caesar’s words at the end
No grave upon the earth shall clip in it/A pair so famous.
Antony - cloud
Here I am Antony/Yet cannot hold this visible shape…
