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Grade 12 IEB Antony and Cleopatra Quotations
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Antony and Cleopatra quotations from each Act and Scene. Important quotations explained.
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Antony and Cleopatra QuotationsAct 1
Scene 1
Philo: Nay, but this dotage of our general’s O’erflows the measure
- Antony is a good solider but his weakness is Cleopatra (Water imagery)
Philo does not regard
Philo: and is becoming the bellows and the fan to cool a gipsy’s lust.
Cleopatra highly. Lust
- Antony is ignoring his public duty and indulging in his private represents a sexual
life. attraction. Fire imagery.
Philo: the triple pillar of the world transformed into a strumpet’s fool. Behold and see.
- Romans believe Antony is reckless. They make rude and disrespectful comments.
Antony: There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.
- If you can measure love then it’s not real.
Antony: Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.
- Antony is losing himself in the dissolution of Cleopatra (Water imagery)
Act 1
Scene 2
Antony: Name Cleopatra as she is called in Rome.
Antony: Let him appear. These strong Egyptian fetters I must break, or lose myself in dotage.
- Antony must leave before the chains of Cleopatra make him powerless and useless.
Antony: this enchanting queen. Cleopatra is complex character. She is an
enchantress, manipulative, clever,
unpredictable, emotional, volatile and
Antony: She is cunning past man’s thought. feels pure love
Act 1
Scene 3
Charmian: methinks if you did love him dearly, you do not hold the method to enforce the like
from him.
- Cleopatra can’t force Antony to love him.
Cleopatra: Eternity was in our lips and eyes, bliss in our brows’ bent; none our parts so poor but
was a race of heaven. They are so still, or thou, the greatest solider of the world.
- Our love is beyond earthly things.
Antony: but my full heart remains in use with you.
Antony: I go from hence thy solider, servant, making peace or war, as thou affects.
- Actions determine your wishes.
, Antony: My precious queen, forbear, and give true evidence to his love, which stands an
honourable trial.
Act 1
Scene 5
Cleopatra: That I might sleep out this great gap of time my Antony is away.
- She is empty without Antony.
Cleopatra: Do bravely, horse, for wot’st thou whom thou mov’est, the demi-Atlas of this earth, the
arm and burgonet of men.
- Antony is half her world.
Cleopatra: Where’s my serpent of old Nile?
- The Serpent is an important symbol associated with Cleopatra. Like the Nile, in its free and
curving shape and movements, it expresses the unrestrained morality of Egypt. The mud of
the Nile swarmed with serpents, also suggesting the opposed themes of fecundity and
dissolution and a primeval, amoral state of existence. As a symbol of power, the serpent’s
image was worn on the forehead of the pharaohs, and gods in serpent form were worshipped
by the Egyptians.
Cleopatra: my man of men.
Cleopatra: My salad days, when I was green in judgment, cold in blood, to say as I said then.
- She was immature and never knew passionate love. Sexual undertones.
Act 2
Scene 1
Pompey: Lepidus flatter both, of both is flattered, but neither loves, nor either cares for him.
- Lepidus is the weakest link. The pillars are not equal.
Pompey: Charms of love
- Referring to Antony and Cleopatra’s affair.
Pompey: Let witchcraft join with beauty, lust with both!
- Let Antony remain under the spell of Cleopatra so he is not a threat.
Pompey: His soldiership is twice the other twain.
- Recognises Antony’s military ability.
Pompey: The ne’er-lust-wearied Antony.
- Never gets tired of sex.
Act 2
Scene 2
Lepidus: noble Antony.
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