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suicide quotes

‘i will o’ertake thee cleopatra’

‘do’t. the time is come.’

‘not cowardly put off my helmet to my countryman; a Roman by a Roman valiantly vanquished’

‘thy master dies thy scholar’

‘shackles accidents and bolts up change’

‘bridegroom in my death and run into’t’

‘no let me speak’

‘let’s do’t after the high Roman fashion and make death proud to take us’

‘our lamp is spent’

‘tearing groan did break the name of antony’ - cleo fake suicide

tragedy quotes

‘o my fortunes have corrupted honest men’

‘bellows and fan to cool a gypsy’s lust’

‘goodly eyes’

‘fortune and antony part here’

antony leadership quotes

‘demi atlas of this earth’

‘his legs bestrid the ocean, his reared arm crested the world’

‘realms and islands were as plates dropped from his pocket’

‘so our leaders led and we are women’s men’

‘authority melts from me’

‘the crown o’the’ earth doth melt’

‘here i am antony yet cannot hold this visible shape’

‘tis said in Rome that Phontius, an eunuch and your maids manage this war’

‘o my fortunes have corrupted honest men’

‘let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch of the ranged empire fall’

cleopatra leadership quotes

‘he gave the stablishment of Egypt, made her of lower Syria, Cyprus, Lydia Absolute queen.’

‘i have sixty sails, Caesar none better’

‘no let me speak’

‘show me my women like a queen’

antony’s view of cleopatra

‘i am dying egypt dying’

‘bridegroom in death, run into’t’

‘torch has gone out’

‘triple turned whore’

‘false sould of egypt’

‘right gypsy’

‘triple turned whore’

‘foul egyptian’

cleopatra view of antony

‘rattling thunder’

‘reared arm crested the world’

‘realms and islands were as plated dropp’d from him pocket’

‘nature wants stuff to vie strange forms with fancy’

‘my bended hook shall pierce / their slimy jaws […] every one an Antony’

‘her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love. we cannot call her windsand water sighs and tears’

‘o sun’

war and love quotes

‘armour of my heart’

‘my heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings’

‘to business that we love, we rise betime and go to’t with delight’

‘if from the field i shall return once more to kiss these lips i will appear in blood’

antony politics vs love

‘no more light answers. i shall break’

‘my full heart remains in use with you’

‘let rome in tiber melt and the wide arch of the ranged empire fall.’

‘he hath given his empire up to a whore’

cleopatra politics vs love

‘and of thee craves the circle of the ptolemies for her heirs’

‘melt Egypt into Nile’

‘Sink Rome, and their tongues rot that speak against us’

starvation quotes

‘the wild disguise hath almost anticked us all.’

‘thou didst drink the stale of horses’

‘at thy heel did famine follow’

‘sir i will eat no meat, i’ll not drink’

‘this mortal house i’ll ruin’

indulgence quotes

‘turn of tippling with a slave to reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet with knaves that smell of sweat’

‘he fishes, drinks, and wastes the lamps of the night in revel’

‘antony only, that would make his will the Lord of his reason’

‘she makes hungry where she most satisfies’

‘he pays his heart for what his eyes eat only’

indulgence quotes

‘turn of tippling with a slave to reel the streets at noon, and stand the buffet with knaves that smell of sweat’

‘he fishes, drinks, and wastes the lamps of the night in revel’

‘antony only, that would make his will the Lord of his reason’

‘she makes hungry where she most satisfies’

‘he pays his heart for what his eyes eat only’

antony’s military strength

‘glowed like plated Mars’

‘his soldiership is twice the other two’

‘not cowardly putt my helmet to my countryman; a Roman by a Roman valiantly vanquished.’

‘by sea, by sea’

‘my sword, made weak by my affection’

‘i made these wars for egypt and the queen whose heart i thought i had for she had mine’

‘armour of my heart’

‘he hath given his empire up to a whore’

cleopatra’s military strength

‘my heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings’

‘she made great Caesar lay his sword to bed’

‘i wore his sword philippan’

antony’s honor

‘i am conqueror of myself’

‘do’t the time is come’

‘a roman by a roman valiantly vanquished’

‘goodly eyes‘

‘put colour in thy cheek’

‘i, that with my sword quartered the world […] condemn myself to lack the courage of a woman’

duty quotes

‘these egyptian fetters i must break’

‘let rome in tiber melt’

‘whither hast thou led me egypt’

‘my heart was to thy rudder tied by a string’

‘i made these wars for egypt’

enobarbus quotes

‘i see men’s judgments are a parcel of their fortunes’

‘thou art so leaky that we must leave thee to thy sinking’

cleopatra as passionate

‘i am fire and air’

‘my thetis’

‘oerpicturing venus’

‘serpent of old nile’

‘tune of flutes kept stroke…they beat to follow…as amorous of their strokes’

‘become the bellows and the fan to cool a gyspy’s lust’

rome quotes

‘triple pillar of the earth’

‘the kings of the earth’

‘it’s a monstrous labor when I wash my brain / and it grows fouler’

‘famine’, ‘gilded puddle’, stooping lower than ‘beasts’

egypt quotes

‘right gypsy’

‘tawny front’

‘witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both… keep his brain fuming’

‘noble ruin of her magic’

‘th’habiliments of isis’

‘burnished throne’

cleopatra as supernatural quotes

‘the witch’

‘witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both…keep his brain fuming’

‘thou spell’

‘the witch shall die’

‘beguiled’

‘serpent of old nile’

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