Quotes About Antony

The power of historical fiction for bad and for good can be immense in shaping consciousness of the past.

In fact Cleopatra was indebted to Fulvia for teaching Antony to obey a wife's authority, for by the time he met her he had already been quite broken in and schooled to accept the way of women.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety" (Antony, 2.2.245–46).

Every time Mr. Trump provokes howls from the establishment, his base cheers and gets re-energized.

Once the saint saw in a vision the whole earth covered so thick with snares, that it seemed scarce possible to set down a foot without falling into them. At this sight he cried out, trembling: "Who, O Lord, can escape them all?" A voice answered him: "Humility, O Antony!

Antony, that revels long o' nights.

O happy horse, to bear the weight of Antony!

The quick comediansExtemporally will stage us, and presentOur Alexandrian revels. AntonyShall be brought drunken forth, and I shall seeSome squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatnessI' the posture of a whore.

O! my oblivion is a very Antony,And I am all forgotten.

I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand miles apart" "Absence makes the heart grow fonder

In my library/study/barn, there is a Ping-Pong table on which I can pile working books and spread maps.

In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.

You can take the girl out of St. Athanasius, etc. —Who was he, do you happen to know? Not Herr Bratwurst, Saint Whatchamacallit. —Athanasius. No idea. So yes, I'm reasonably certain she had an affair, although I don't think it was the kind that would put Antony and Cleopatra in the shade. But whatever

I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand miles apart" "Absence makes the heart grow fonder

Significantly, too, the triumvirs Octavian, Antony and Lepidus, promised to build a temple to Isis and Serapis to win favour with the populace (DC, 47, 15, 4). But the promise was not kept, and the war setting Octavian against Cleopatra's lover would become a war of the gods, between Apollo and 'barking Anubis

Perusian war proved that Antony and his supporters

Antony's children were provided with additional names about this time

Antony showed little interest in Sextus, but was irritated to find that he had offered his services to the Parthian king.

In 35 B.C., Sextus Pompeius was executed, presumably with Antony's approval.

He sat beside Antony in his carriage and arrived unescorted at his colleague's quarters in the city.

However, a coin of Antony's, issued at Tarentum, shows Antony's and Octavia's heads facing each other:

Antony and other supporters of Caesar fled to their commander, who was waiting at the little

Antony, who had spent the winter at Athens, agreed to return to Italy in the spring or early

He went straight to Antony to ask for the money. He found him in his garden