Quotes from Antony and Cleopatra
23 notable lines from William Shakespeare · c. 1606
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.
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.
Enobarbus on Cleopatra, Act II, scene ii I am dying, Egypt, dying; only I here importune death awhile, until of many thousand kisses the poor last I lay upon thy lips.
Antony, Antony and Cleopatra Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me.
Cleopatra, Antony and Cleopatra The barge she sat in, like a burnish'd throne, Burn'd on the water: the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them.
Enobarbus describing Cleopatra on the Cydnus, Act II, scene ii Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.
Antony, Act I, scene i My salad days, When I was green in judgment: cold in blood, To say as I said then!
Cleopatra recalling her youth, Act I, scene v I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life.
Cleopatra, Act V, scene ii The triple pillar of the world transform'd Into a strumpet's fool.
Philo on Antony, opening lines, Act I, scene i Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep?
Cleopatra of the asp at her breast, Act V, scene ii There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.
Antony to Cleopatra, Act I, scene i Eternity was in our lips and eyes, Bliss in our brows' bent.
Cleopatra, Act I, scene iii O, couldst thou speak, That I might hear thee call great Caesar ass Unpolicied!
Cleopatra to the asp, Act V, scene ii O, wither'd is the garland of the war, The soldier's pole is fall'n: young boys and girls Are level now with men.
Cleopatra at Antony's death, Act IV, scene xv And is become the bellows and the fan To cool a gipsy's lust.
Philo on Antony, Act I, scene i Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies A lass unparallel'd.
Charmian over the dead Cleopatra, Act V, scene ii I dream'd there was an Emperor Antony: O, such another sleep, that I might see But such another man!
Cleopatra to Dolabella, Act V, scene ii His legs bestrid the ocean: his rear'd arm Crested the world.
Cleopatra of Antony, Act V, scene ii The nobleness of life Is to do thus.
Antony embracing Cleopatra, Act I, scene i Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.
Antony to Cleopatra, Act I, scene i She shall be buried by her Antony: No grave upon the earth shall clip in it A pair so famous.
Octavius Caesar, closing lines, Act V, scene ii Let's have one other gaudy night: call to me All my sad captains; fill our bowls once more.
Antony, Act III, scene xiii The death of Antony Is not a single doom; in the name lay A moiety of the world.
Octavius Caesar on hearing of Antony's death, Act V, scene i