Antony Quotations

‘this dotage…

‘this dotage of our general’s/ O’erflows the measure’ (Philo)

‘his goodly eyes…

‘his goodly eyes,/ That o’er the files and musters of the war/ Have glowed like plated Mars’ (Philo)

‘The triple pillar…

‘The triple pillar of the world transform’d/ Into a strumpet’s fool’ (Philo)

‘Let Rome…

‘Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch/ Of the ranged empire fall!’ (Antony)

‘Fie…

‘Fie, wrangling queen’ (Antony)

‘These strong Egyptian…

‘These strong Egyptian fetters I must break,/ Or lose myself in dotage’ (Antony)

‘he fishes, drinks…

‘he fishes, drinks, and wastes/ The lamps of night in revel: is not more manlike/ Than Cleopatra, nor the queen of Ptolemy/ More womanly than he’ (Caesar)

‘My man…

‘My man of men!’ (Cleopatra)

‘His soldiership…

‘His soldiership/ Is twice the other twain’ (Pompey)

‘To make you brothers…

‘To make you brothers, and to knit your hearts/ With an unslipping knot, take Antony/ Octavia to his wife’ (Agrippa)

[They clasp…

[They clasp hands]

‘I will to Egypt…

‘I will to Egypt:/ And though I make this marriage for my peace,/ I’ th’ East my pleasure lies.’ (Antony)

‘He will to his…

‘He will to his Egyptian dish again. Then shall the sighs of Octavia blow the fire up in Caesar’ (Enobarbus)

‘If I lose…

‘If I lose mine honour,/ I lose myself’ (Antony)

‘I’ th’ market-place…

‘I’ th’ market-place, on a tribunal silvered,/ Cleopatra and himself in chairs of gold/ Were publicly enthroned.’ (Caesar)

‘I never saw an action…

‘I never saw an action of such shame./ Experience, manhood, honour, ne’er before/ Did violate so itself.’ (Scarus)

‘Had our general…

‘Had our general/ Been what he knew - himself - it had gone well.’ (Canidius)

‘O, whither…

‘O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt?’ (Antony)

‘Authority melts…

‘Authority melts from me!’ (Antony)

‘Alack, our terrene…

‘Alack, our terrene moon is now eclipsed/ And it portends the fall of Antony.’ (Antony)

‘I and my sword…

‘I and my sword will earn our chronicle’ (Antony)

‘I’ll make Death…

‘I’ll make Death love me, for I will contend/ Even with his pestilent scythe.’ (Antony)

[Music of the hautboys…

[Music of the hautboys is under the stage]… ‘Tis the god Hercules whom Antony loved/ Now leaves him.’ (Soldier)

[Enter CLEOPATRA.] [to Scarus]…

[Enter CLEOPATRA.] [to Scarus] ‘Give me thy hand./ To this great fairy I’ll commend thy acts’ (Antony)

[Enter CLEOPATRA.] ‘Ah…

[Enter CLEOPATRA.] ‘Ah, thou spell! Avaunt!’ (Antony)

[Enter MARDIAN] ‘O thy vile…

[Enter MARDIAN] ‘O thy vile lady!/ She has robbed me of my sword.’ (Antony)

[Falls on his sword.]…

[Falls on his sword.]…/How? Not dead? Not dead?/ The guard, ho! O, dispatch me.’ (Antony)

‘The star…

‘The star is fallen’ (2 Guard)

‘His legs bestrid…

‘His legs bestrid the ocean; his reared arm/ Crested the world’ (Cleopatra)