Marc Antony Quotes in Cleopatra (1963)

Marc Antony: Your tongue is old, but sharp, Cicero. Be careful how you waggle it. One day it will cut off your head.

Marc Antony: [his last words] A kiss... to take my breath away...

Marc Antony: This son of Caesar, does it upset you?

Caesar Augustus: No.

Marc Antony: You were so shut at the mouth just now one would think your words were are precious to you as your gold.

Caesar Augustus: Like my gold, I used them where they are worth most.

Marc Antony: Ah! And your virtue?

[Leans over to him]

Marc Antony: My friend has a friend.

Caesar Augustus: That too.

[as they begin eating on Cleopatra's barge]

Marc Antony: Fabulous feast.

Cleopatra: One is so limited when one travels by ship.

Marc Antony: Why are you not dead? Why do you live? How do you live? Why do you not lie at the deepest hole of the sea, bloodless, and bloated, and at peace with honorable death?

Marc Antony: Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears; I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him. The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interred with their bones; So let it be with Caesar.

Marc Antony: [to Caesar's dead body] O pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth / That I am meek and gentle with these butchers.

[last lines]

Marc Antony: This was the noblest Roman of them all. All the conspirators save only he, did what they did in envy of great Caesar. He only, in a general honest thought, and common will for all, made one of them. His life was gentle, and the elements so mixed in him that the nature might stand up and say to all the world, "This was a man."

Marc Antony: [repeated several times, about Caesar] Yet Brutus says he was ambitious/ And Brutus is an honorable man.

Marc Antony: I said things to Caesar I wish I hadn't.

Cleopatra: Oh?

Marc Antony: There's beauty in the Egyptian queen besides her face. Do you miss him?

Cleopatra: No, he didn't love me.

Marc Antony: Is that really the reason?

Cleopatra: No, not really. I admire men who don't love women.

Marc Antony: What do you mean by that?

Cleopatra: Oh, I don't know. Women should be but toys for the great. It becomes them both.

Octavian: I'm glad you're above something.

Marc Antony: Ah, in his usual gay mood.

Julius Caesar: What's this? Antony hates women too?

[laughs]

Marc Antony: Out of their place, I do. They have no place amongst men! They can't think and they can't fight. They're just playthings for us.

Julius Caesar: Most of them.

Marc Antony: All of them!

Marc Antony: Where are my men?

Cleopatra: Oh. Oh, Carmion, where are Romans who came here today, do you know?

Charmion: They're sleeping, my Queen.

Marc Antony: Sleeping? What for?

Charmion: They are - well, I should say they are a little tired.

Marc Antony: You mean a little drunk!

Cleopatra: No. Awfully drunk.

Marc Antony: I'm not used to being disobeyed.

Cleopatra: But, why should I obey you?

Cleopatra: Do you see the way I'm dressed?

Marc Antony: What about it?

Cleopatra: I'm dressed to lure you in!

Cleopatra: Oh, no-no, don't drink that. No, that was part of the plan too. I was going to get you *so* - irresponsible.

Marc Antony: Well, you don't think one goblet would do it, did you?

Cleopatra: Yes, wouldn't it?

Marc Antony: [laughs] Well, that does amuse me!

Cleopatra: But, its such a large goblet!

Marc Antony: Yes, isn't it.

Marc Antony: I hope that you know that - I know that you want me to do this.

Cleopatra: Dear Antony, I hope you think I know that you know I know.

Marc Antony: I should want to go out and get drunk with a lot of men. Or, find another woman.

Cleopatra: Well, why don't you?

Marc Antony: Because you are another woman. New. Always new. Completely new.

Marc Antony: A wine we've never had before, dear Antony. I've been saving it.

Marc Antony: What for?

Cleopatra: For a night when the mood strikes.

Marc Antony: I see. And tonight is that night?

Cleopatra: Tonight! Now, can you think of a pretty toast? It would please me, very much.

Marc Antony: You're very gay.

Cleopatra: Antony! Antony! Oh!

Marc Antony: What's the matter? Well, what is it?

Cleopatra: Oh, oh. Love, I've seen a God come to life. I'm no longer a Queen. I'm a woman.

Marc Antony: You choose me, Cleopatra, against the world.

Cleopatra: Against the world.

Marc Antony: Then, we'll meet it! We'll smash it to pieces, put it together again and call it ours!

Marc Antony: Yes, we'll fight them. We'll fight them all! If we have to fight alone.