Antony and Cleopatra – quotes for POWER and LOVE
Quote
Who about who Explanation
“this is no queen. This is a goddess”
“dine with me, on the barge”
“goodly eyes”
“glow’d like plated Mars”
A–C
C–A
Philo – A
Philo – A
“now bend, now turn”
“triple pillar of the world transform’d
into a strumpets fool”
“thou needs find out new heaven,
new earth”
“scarce-bearded Caesar”
Philo – A
Philo – A
“Let Rome in Tiber melt”
“Kingdoms are clay’
A
A
“he comes too short of that great
property”
“a Roman thought hath stuck him”
Philo – A
“strong Egyptian fetters I must
break”
“enchanting queen”
“she is cunning past man’s thought”
A
“if you find him sad, say I am
dancing. If in mirth, report that I am
sudden sick”
“eternity was in our lips and eyes’
C – Ch
“the greatest soldier of the world, art
turn’d the greatest liar”
“my full heart remains in use with
you”
“my oblivion is a very Antony and I
am all forgotten”
C–A
“is not more man-like than
Cleopatra nor the queen of Ptolemy
more womanly than he”
OC – A
“a man who is the abstract of all
faults that all men follow”
OC – A
A–C
A – OC
C–A
A–C
A–C
A – Ch
His love is in excess
Armed like mars
Ready for war
He has changed
Tool for a prostitute
Limits don’t exist in a
new universe for us
Young,
inexperienced
No care for Rome
Nothing to compare
to their love
Lacks loyalty to
Rome
Roman duties are
now important
Must break away
from these chains
We can’t understand
her as men
Say whatever you
need to make him
come back to me
We could have done
this forever
You’re threatening to
leave so go
A–C
C–A
You leaving destroys
me and you’ll forget
about me
They spend so much
time together and
can’t tell the
difference
His is faulty but
people still respect
him
“give a kingdom for a mirth”
OC – A
“the demi-Atlas of this earth”
“beggar’d all description”
“made a gap in nature”
C–A
E–C
E–C
“she did make defect perfection”
“she makes hungry where most she
satisfies”
“I’ the east my pleasure lies”
“then put my tires and mantles on
him, whilst I wore his sword
Philippan”
“he will to his Egyptian dish again”
“he hath given his empire up to a
whore”
“I will not stay behind”
“our leader’s led and we are
women’s men’
“we have kiss’d away kingdoms and
provinces”
“the noble ruin of her magic”
E–C
E–C
Indescribable
The natural world
made a space for
her to exist – forcer
greater than nature
Her people loved her
Never tired of her
A–C
C–A
Seduced him
E–A
OC – A
For his love
C–A
Soldier – A
To BOA
Antony is led by Cleo
Soldier
“flies after her”
“I have lost my way for ever”
“I have offended reputation”
Soldier
A
A
Given away
territories for a kiss
She has damaged
him and his
reputation
Followed her leaving
“you were my conqueror”
“my fortunes have corrupted honest
men”
“all is lost”
“triple-turn’d whore”
“this grave charm”
A–C
A–E
“go tell him I have slain myself; say,
that the last word I spoke was
Antony”
“cannot hold this visible shape”
“lie down”
“the gods detest his baseness”
“run into’t as to a lover’s bed”
C - Ch
Soldier
A
A–C
A–C
A
A
A
A
Giving up Rome for
pleasure
I have destroyed
myself
You led me
E left him
He’s lost everything
JC, Pompey, A
Blinded by her charm
and sex appeal
Extremely shameful
Wants to die
Dishonor
Unify with Cleo in
death
“none but Antony should conquer
Antony”
“dull world”
“no more but e’en a women”
C–A
“high Roman fashion”
C
“make death proud to take us”
“the breaking of so great a thing
should make a greater crack”
C
OC – A
“a rarer spirit never did steer
humanity”
“it is great to do that thing that ends
all other deeds”
“this mortal house I’ll ruin”
Agrippa – A
“his face was as the heavens”
“he words me”
C–A
C – OC
“Egyptian puppet”
“again for Cydnus”
“mock the luck of Caesar”
C
C
C
“to meet Mark Antony”
“he brings me liberty”
“my resolution’s placed”
“Now to that name my courage
prove my title”
“eastern star”
“your crown’s awry, I’ll mend it”
“Caesar’s beguiled”
C
C–A
C
C
“bravest at the last”
“took her own way”
“she would catch another Antony”
OC – C
OC – C
OC – C
“she shall be buried by her Antony”
“a pair so famous”
OC
OC
C–A
C
C
C
Ch – C
Ch – C
Guard
Dull without him
Reducing herself to
human
Kills ourselves the
way Romans do
Antony dying should
make a bigger
impact
Nothing more
powerful than A
Suicide
Kill her body before it
can be shown off
Manipulating her to
not kill herself
She will be paraded
Look like she did
He has nothing left of
us
Freedom
Decision made
My suicide must
prove to be your wife
Crown was skew
Betrayed and
deceived
Killed herself
She can charm A
again
Next to him