All Quotes

"If thou dost play with him at any game, Thou art sure to lose; and, of that natural luck, He beats thee 'gainst the odds; thy lustre thickens When he shines by."

"’T was merry when You wager’d on your angling; when your diver Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he With fervency drew up."

"Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!"

"It's monstrous labour, when I wash my brain, And it grows fouler."

"Who does i’ the wars more than his captain can, Becomes his captain’s captain; and ambition, The soldier’s virtue, rather makes choice of loss, Than gain which darkens him."

"I have eyes upon him, And his affairs come to me on the wind."

"You are abused Beyond the mark of thought: and the high gods, To do you justice, make them ministers Of us and those that love you."

"Celerity is never more admir'd than by the negligent."

"Observe how Antony becomes his flaw"

"To the boy Caesar send this grizzled head, And he will fill thy wishes to the brim With principalities."

"Tell him, he wears the rose Of youth upon him."

"Men’s judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward Do draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike."

"Mine honesty and I begin to square."

"Authority melts from me: of late, when I cried 'Ho!' Like boys unto a muss, kings would start forth, And cry 'Your will?' Have you no ears? I am Antony yet."

"You were half blasted ere I knew you"

"You have been a boggler ever."

"Get thee back to Caesar, Tell him thy entertainment: look, thou say He makes me angry with him; for he seems Proud and disdainful, harping on what I am, Not what he knew I was: he makes me angry."

"Alack, our terrene moon Is now eclipsed; and it portends alone The fall of Antony!"

"Now I'll set my teeth, And send to darkness all that stop me."

"It is my birth-day: I had thought to have held it poor: but, since my lord Is Antony again, I will be Cleopatra."

"I'll make death love me; for I will contend Even with his pestilent scythe."

"He calls me boy; and chides, as he had power To beat me out of Egypt; my messenger He hath whipp'd with rods; dares me to personal combat, Caesar to Antony: let the old ruffian know I have many other ways to die; meantime Laugh at his challenge."

"To business that we love we rise betime, And go to ’t with delight."

"This morning, like the spirit of a youth That means to be of note, begins betimes."

"The time of universal peace is near."

"The shirt of Nessus is upon me."

"O sovereign mistress of true melancholy, The poisonous damp of night disponge upon me, That life, a very rebel to my will, May hang no longer on me."

"Let the world rank me in register A master-leaver and a fugitive: O Antony! O Antony!"

"Charmain: Be comforted, dear madam. Cleopatra: No, I will not. All strange and terrible events are welcome, But comforts we despise; our size of sorrow, Proportion'd to our cause, must be as great."

"Antony: Sometime we see a cloud that’s dragonish; A vapour sometime like a bear or lion, A tower’d citadel, a pendent rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon ’t, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs? They are black vesper's pageants. Enorbarbus: Ay, my lord. Antony: That which is now a horse, even with a thought The rack dislimns, and makes it indistinct, As water is in water."

"The seven-fold shield of Ajax cannot keep The battery from my heart. O, cleave, my sides!"

"Since Cleopatra died, I have liv’d in such dishonour, that the gods Detest my baseness."

"I am dying, Egypt, dying; only I here impórtune death a while, until Of many thousand kisses the poor last I lay upon thy lips."

"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."

"Good sirs, take heart: — We'll bury him; and then, what's brave, what's noble, Let's do it after the high Roman fashion, And make Death proud to take us. Come, away: This case of that huge spirit now is cold. — Ah, women, women! — come; we have no friend But resolution, and the briefest end."

"The breaking of so great a thing should make A greater crack"

"The death of Antony Is not a single doom; in the name lay A moiety of the world."

"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, Unreconciliable, should divide Our equalness to this."

"For his bounty, There was no winter in ’t; an autumn ’t was, That grew the more by reaping."

"If there be, or ever were, one such, It’s past the size of dreaming."

"Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall Uplift us to the view; in their thick breath, Rank with gross diet, shall we be enclouded, And forc'd to drink their vapour."

"Shall they hoist me up And show me to the shouting varletry Of censuring Rome? Rather a ditch in Egypt Be gentle grave unto me! rather on Nilus' mud Lay me stark naked, and let the water-flies Blow me into abhorring!"

"His delights Were dolphin-like; they show'd his back above The element they lived in."

"Finish, good lady; the bright day is done, And we are for the dark."

"I wish you joy o' the worm."

"I have Immortal longings in me."

"Come, thou mortal wretch, With thy sharp teeth this knot intrinsicate Of life at once untie: poor venomous fool, Be angry, and dispatch. O, couldst thou speak, That I might hear thee call great Caesar Ass Unpolicied!"

"I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life."

"Peace, peace! Dost thou not see my baby at my breast, That sucks the nurse asleep?"

"She looks like sleep, As she would catch another Antony In her strong toil of grace."