Antony Quotes in Cleopatra (1963)

Cleopatra: You come before me as a suppliant.

Antony: If you choose to regard me as such.

Cleopatra: I do. You will therefore assume the position of a suppliant before this throne. You will kneel.

Antony: I will *what*?

Cleopatra: On-your-knees!

Antony: You dare ask the Proconsul of the Roman Empire?

Cleopatra: I *asked* it of Julius Caesar. I *demand* it of you!

Cleopatra: [admiring his armor] And I find what you're wearing most becoming. Greek, isn't it?

Antony: I have a fondness for almost all Greek things.

Cleopatra: [referring to her Macedonian ancestry] As an almost all-Greek thing, I'm flattered.

Antony: Queens. Queens. Strip them naked as any other woman, they are no longer queens.

Rufio: It is also difficult to tell the rank of a naked general. Generals without armies are naked indeed.

Antony: What has angered you? That I dealt with Octavian however I could, or that I married his sister to do it? Jealousy or politics, which?

Cleopatra: Both! And damn you for not understanding either!

Antony: It would not occur to me to look to you for instruction.

Cleopatra: Which is why you have come back chained to Octavian like a slave. And with such an exquisite set of chains. So softly spoken, so virtuous! She sleeps, I hear, fully-clothed!

[to Octavian]

Antony: You know it's possible Octavian that when you die... You will die without ever having been alive.

Antony: Cleopatra, why did you turn your ship from the fight?

Cleopatra: I believed the battle to be lost.

Antony: All the galleys have scattered and fled before the enemy and just when the battle was almost won!

Cleopatra: Do not blame me, what do I know of war?

Antony: But what about - love? Ours? If the worst came, we had sworn to die together.

Cleopatra: Aren't we together now, Antony? Oh, we can sail back to Alexandria, always together. We can still live, my dearest.

Antony: With shame on our names.

Cleopatra: Oh, but with love for each other in our hearts. My galley is swift. The Romans will never catch us. Come closer to me, Antony.

Antony: What have you done to me? Where have you led me? I was the greatest Roman of them all. What am I, now?

Cleopatra: You are my love.