Antony and Cleopatra Quotes

Antony and Cleopatra is a tragedy by William Shakespeare (first printed in 1623). The play is based on Plutarch's "Life of Mark Antony." The plot follows the story of the Roman, Mark Antony, and Cleopatra. Here are a few quotes from Antony and Cleopatra.

• "The triple pillar of the world transformed
  Into a strumpet's fool."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.1
  
  
• "If it be love indeed, tell me how much."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.1
  
  
• "There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.1
  
  
• "Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch
  Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.
  Kingdoms are clay."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.1
  
  
• "I love long life better than figs."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.2
  
  
• "On the sudden
  A Roman thought hath struck him."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.2
  
  
• "The nature of bad news infects the teller."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.2
  
  
• "There's a great spirit gone!"
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.2
  
  
• "Indeed the tears live in an onion that should water this sorrow."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.2
  
  
• "Eternity was in our lips and yes,
  Bliss in our brows bent."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.3
  
  
• "O! my oblivion is a very Antony,
  And I am all forgotten."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.3
  
  
• "Give me to drink mandragora That I might sleep this out this great gap of time
  My Antony is away."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5
  
  
• "O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!"
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5
  
  
• "Where 's my serpent of old Nile?"
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5
  
  
• "A morsel for a monarch."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5
  
  
• "My salad days,
  When I was green in judgment."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 1.5
  
  
• "Small to greater matters must give way."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 2.2
  
  
• "I do not much dislike the matter, but
  The manner of his speech."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 2.2
  
  
• "The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne,
  Burned 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 beggared all description."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 2.2
  
  
• "Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale
  Her infinite variety."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 2.2
  
  
• "I have not kept my square; but that to come
  Shall all be done by the rule."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 2.3
  
  
• "I' the east my pleasure lies."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 2.3
  
  
• "Give me some music - music, moody food
  Of us that trade in love."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 2.5
  
  
• "Give me mine angle; we'll to the river: there,
  My music playing far off, I will betray
  Tawny-finn'd fishes; my bended hook shall pierce
  Their slimy jaws; and, as I draw them up,
  I'll think them every one an Antony,
  And say 'Ah, ha! you're caught.'"
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 2.5
  
  
• "I laughed him out of patience; and that night
  I laughed him into patience; and next morn,
  Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 2.5
  
  
• "It is shaped, sir, like itself; and it is as broad as it hath breadth: it is just so high as it is, and moves with its own organs: it lives by that which nourisheth it; and the elements once out of it, it transmigrates."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 2.7
  
  
• "Come, thou monarch of the vine,
  Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!"
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 2.7
  
  
• "Egypt, thou knew'st too well
  My heart was to thy rudder tied by th' strings,
  And thou shouldst tow me after."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 3. 9
  
  
• "I found you as a morsel, cold upon
  Dead Caesar's trencher."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 3.11
  
  
• "He wears the rose
  Of youth upon him."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 3.13
  
  
• "Let's have one other gaudy night: call to me
  All my sad captains; fill our bowls once more;
  Let's mock the midnight bell."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 3.13
  
  
• "To business that we love we rise betime,
  And go to 't with delight."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 4.4
  
  
• "O! my fortunes have
  Corrupted honest men."
  - William Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, 4.5