The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

Cleopatra: Let it alone; let’s to billiards: come, Charmian.
‘Antony and Cleopatra’ (1606-7) act 2, sc. 5, l. 2
Give me mine angle; we’ll to the river: there—
My music playing far off—I will betray
Tawny-finned fishes; my bended hook shall pierce
Their slimy jaws; and, as I draw them up,
I’ll think them every one an Antony,
And say, ‘Ah, ha!’ you’re caught.
‘Antony and Cleopatra’ (1606-7) act 2, sc. 5, l. 10
I laughed him out of patience; and that night
I laughed him into patience: and next morn,
Ere the ninth hour, I drunk him to his bed.
‘Antony and Cleopatra’ (1606-7) act 2, sc. 5, l. 19
Though it be honest, it is never good
To bring bad news; give to a gracious message
A host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell
Themselves when they be felt.
‘Antony and Cleopatra’ (1606-7) act 2, sc. 5, l. 85
I will praise any man that will praise me.
‘Antony and Cleopatra’ (1606-7) act 2, sc. 6, l. [88]
Lepidus: What manner o’ thing is your crocodile?
Antony: It is shaped, sir, like itself, and it is as broad as it hath breadth; it is just so high as it
is, and moves with its own organs; it lives by that which nourisheth it; and the elements once out
of it, it transmigrates.
Lepidus: What colour is it of?
Antony: Of its own colour too.
Lepidus: ’Tis a strange serpent.
Antony: ’Tis so; and the tears of it are wet.
‘Antony and Cleopatra’ (1606-7) act 2, sc. 7, l. [47]
He sends so poor a pinion of his wing,
Which had superfluous kings for messengers
Not many moons gone by.
‘Antony and Cleopatra’ (1606-7) act 3, sc. 10, l. 4
He wears the rose
Of youth upon him.
‘Antony and Cleopatra’ (1606-7) act 3, sc. 11, l. 20
Against the blown rose may they stop their nose,
That kneel’d unto the buds.
‘Antony and Cleopatra’ (1606-7) act 3, sc. 11, l. 39
Yet he that can endure