Antony and Cleopatra Quotes

“The breaking of so great a thing should make
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have
Immortal longings in me: now no more
The juice of Egypt's grape shall moist this lip:
Yare, yare, good Iras; quick. Methinks I hear
Antony call; I see him rouse himself
To praise my noble act; I hear him mock
The luck of Caesar, which the gods give men
To excuse their after wrath: husband, I come:
Now to that name my courage prove my title!
I am fire and air; my other elements
I give to baser life. So; have you done?
Come then, and take the last warmth of my lips.
Farewell, kind Charmian; Iras, long farewell.

Kisses them. IRAS falls and dies

Have I the aspic in my lips? Dost fall?
If thou and nature can so gently part,
The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch,
Which hurts, and is desired. Dost thou lie still?
If thus thou vanishest, thou tell'st the world
It is not worth leave-taking.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Make death proud to take us.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“We, ignorant of ourselves,
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit
By losing of our prayers.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“But she makes hungry
Where she most satisfies...”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Music, moody food
Of us that trade in love.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“That truth should be silent I had almost forgot. (Enobarbus)”
― Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the Dark.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch
Which hurts and is desired.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“The crown o' the earth doth melt. My lord!
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; the odds is gone,
And there is nothing left remarkable
Beneath the visiting moon.”
― William Shakespeare, 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; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggar’d all description.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Come, sir, come,
I'll wrestle with you in my strength of love.
Look, here I have you, thus I let you go,
And give you to the gods.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“My salad days,
When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,
To say as I said then! But, come, away;
Get me ink and paper:
He shall have every day a several greeting,
Or I'll unpeople Egypt.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“If you find him sad, say I am dancing. If in mirth, report that I am sudden sick.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“But yet let me lament
With tears as sovereign as the blood of hearts
That thou my brother, my competitor
In top of all design, my mate in empire,
Friend and companion in the front of war,
The arm of mine own body, and the heart
Where mine his thoughts did kindle—that our stars
Unreconcilable should divide
Our equalness to this.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“The April's in her eyes: it is love's Spring,
And these the showers to bring it on..”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“But you gods will give us
Some faults to make us men.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“The worm is not to be trusted...”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“If it be love indeed, tell me how much.

There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.

I'll set a bourn how far to be beloved.

Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Alack, sir, no; her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love. We cannot call her winds and waters sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report: this cannot be cunning in her; if it be, she makes a shower of rain as well as Jove.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Our separation so abides, and flies,
That thou, residing here, go'st yet with me,
And I, hence fleeting, here remain with thee.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Kingdoms are clay: our dungy earth alike
Feeds beast as man.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Where souls do couch on flowers we’ll hand in hand...”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“My desolation does begin to make a better life.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“He kiss’d, –the last of many doubled kisses, –this orient pearl.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“Let him forever go!-Let him not, Charmian.
Though he be painted one way like a Gorgon,
The other way he's a Mars.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra

“For what good turn?
Messenger: For the best turn of the bed.”
― William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra