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“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.” (Antony and Cleopatra Quotes)
William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra
“But yet let me lament
William Shakespeare
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
Unreconcilable should divide
Our equalness to this.”
Antony and Cleopatra
“But you gods will give us
William Shakespeare
Some faults to make us men.”
Antony and Cleopatra
“Fortune knows we scorn her most when most she offers blows.”
William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra
“In time we hate that which we often fear.”
William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra
“Now he’ll outstare the lighting. To be furious
William Shakespeare
Is to be frightened out of fear, and in that mood
The dove will peck the estridge; and I see still
A diminution in our captain’s brain
Restores his heart. When valor preys on reason,
It eats the sword it fights with.” (Antony and Cleopatra Quotes)
Antony and Cleopatra
“The barge she sat in, like a burnished throne, Burned on the water; the poop was beaten gold; Purple the sails, and so perfumed that The winds were love-sick with them; the oars were silver, Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made The water which they beat to follow faster, As amorous of their strokes. For her own person, It beggared all description.”
William Shakespeare
Antony and Cleopatra
“The breaking of so great a thing should make
William Shakespeare
A greater crack: the round world
Should have shook lions into civil streets,
And citizens to their dens.”
Antony and Cleopatra
“There’s a great spirit gone! Thus did I desire it.
William Shakespeare
What our contempts doth often hurl from us,
We wish it ours again. The present pleasure,
By revolution lowering, does become
The opposite of itself. She’s good, being gone.
The hand could pluck her back that shoved her on.”
Antony and Cleopatra
“We, ignorant of ourselves,
William Shakespeare
Beg often our own harms, which the wise powers
Deny us for our good; so find we profit
By losing of our prayers.”
Antony and Cleopatra
“When valor preys on reason,
William Shakespeare
it eats the sword it fights with.”
Antony and Cleopatra
