Antony and Cleopatra – quotes for POWER and LOVE
Quote Who about who Explanation
“this is no queen. This is a goddess” A–C
“dine with me, on the barge” C–A
“goodly eyes” Philo – A His love is in excess
“glow’d like plated Mars” Philo – A Armed like mars
Ready for war
“now bend, now turn” Philo – A He has changed
“triple pillar of the world transform’d Philo – A Tool for a prostitute
into a strumpets fool”
“thou needs find out new heaven, A–C Limits don’t exist in a
new earth” new universe for us
“scarce-bearded Caesar” A – OC Young,
inexperienced
“Let Rome in Tiber melt” A No care for Rome
“Kingdoms are clay’ A Nothing to compare
to their love
“he comes too short of that great Philo – A Lacks loyalty to Rome
property”
“a Roman thought hath stuck him” C–A Roman duties are
now important
“strong Egyptian fetters I must A Must break away
break” from these chains
“enchanting queen” A–C
“she is cunning past man’s thought” A–C We can’t understand
her as men
“if you find him sad, say I am C – Ch Say whatever you
dancing. If in mirth, report that I am need to make him
sudden sick” come back to me
“eternity was in our lips and eyes’ A – Ch We could have done
this forever
“the greatest soldier of the world, art C–A You’re threatening to
turn’d the greatest liar” leave so go
“my full heart remains in use with A–C
you”
“my oblivion is a very Antony and I C–A You leaving destroys
am all forgotten” me and you’ll forget
about me
“is not more man-like than OC – A They spend so much
Cleopatra nor the queen of Ptolemy time together and
more womanly than he” can’t tell the
difference
“a man who is the abstract of all OC – A His is faulty but
faults that all men follow” people still respect
him
Quote Who about who Explanation
“this is no queen. This is a goddess” A–C
“dine with me, on the barge” C–A
“goodly eyes” Philo – A His love is in excess
“glow’d like plated Mars” Philo – A Armed like mars
Ready for war
“now bend, now turn” Philo – A He has changed
“triple pillar of the world transform’d Philo – A Tool for a prostitute
into a strumpets fool”
“thou needs find out new heaven, A–C Limits don’t exist in a
new earth” new universe for us
“scarce-bearded Caesar” A – OC Young,
inexperienced
“Let Rome in Tiber melt” A No care for Rome
“Kingdoms are clay’ A Nothing to compare
to their love
“he comes too short of that great Philo – A Lacks loyalty to Rome
property”
“a Roman thought hath stuck him” C–A Roman duties are
now important
“strong Egyptian fetters I must A Must break away
break” from these chains
“enchanting queen” A–C
“she is cunning past man’s thought” A–C We can’t understand
her as men
“if you find him sad, say I am C – Ch Say whatever you
dancing. If in mirth, report that I am need to make him
sudden sick” come back to me
“eternity was in our lips and eyes’ A – Ch We could have done
this forever
“the greatest soldier of the world, art C–A You’re threatening to
turn’d the greatest liar” leave so go
“my full heart remains in use with A–C
you”
“my oblivion is a very Antony and I C–A You leaving destroys
am all forgotten” me and you’ll forget
about me
“is not more man-like than OC – A They spend so much
Cleopatra nor the queen of Ptolemy time together and
more womanly than he” can’t tell the
difference
“a man who is the abstract of all OC – A His is faulty but
faults that all men follow” people still respect
him
