- Octavia: [about Calpurnia not knowing that Caesar and Cleopatra are involved] The wife is always the last to know.
- 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.
- Cleopatra: So Rome would forgive and take you back? And all they demand is for us to part. Why don't they ask the sun to fall right out of the sky?
- Cleopatra: [last line, to Charmion and Iras] Look well for love. Look well. And not finding it, give nothing. But if blessed with Cleopatra's fortune, give all. Now, go.
- Cleopatra: It seems strange to see you working. I've always pictured you either fighting or loving.
- Julius Caesar: Well, I have had some experience with fighting.
- Cleopatra: But none with loving, I suppose.
- Julius Caesar: Well, none with pretty little queens.
- Cleopatra: I had to walk miles across the desert to the sea... to find the fishing boat that brought me to you. But just seeing you is magic, immortal Caesar.
- Julius Caesar: That's quite a speech. Your tongue is no longer bewitched by Caesar, eh?
- Cleopatra: No. It's my heart now.
- Soothsayer: Caesar. Caesar! Beware of the ides of March.
- Julius Caesar: One dates as good as another for a funeral.
- [laughs]
- Soothsayer: Beware!
- 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 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.
- Charmion: [singing] Grant me the heart I crave, Hear the prayers of thy slave, Isis, great Queen of night and love, Hear thy slave, Hear thy slave.
- 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.
- Herod: My friend, when a man is drunk with love, he can't divide his concentration with wine, you know. All major emotions are greedy.
- Cleopatra: Come to my chambers and dine. We'll make such plans.
- Julius Caesar: Are your plans for India or me?
- Cleopatra: Both! Shouldn't a Queen choose as her confident, a King?
- Julius Caesar: Shhh! The word King is not well liked in Rome.
- Cleopatra: Caesar takes what he wants.
- Cleopatra: If I implored you to marry me, you wouldn't?
- Julius Caesar: I'd have to ask my wife in Rome.
- Cleopatra: [laughs] Oh, as if you care about that. Divorce her. Together we could conquer the world!
- Cleopatra: Let's not talk any more.
- Julius Caesar: I picked a flower in Britain once, the color of your eyes.
- Lady Flora: He doesn't miss very much any day. The Queen of Egypt gives parties too.
- Lady Leda: You mean Cleopatra?
- Fidius: What? Have you heard of Cleopatra?
- Lady Leda: Of course. All kinds of things. Is she black?
- [Party guests all laugh]
- Soothsayer: Caesar, I warned you, the ides of March.
- Julius Caesar: The ides of March are here!
- Soothsayer: But, not gone!
- Apollodorus: [Caesar has been murdered] Come, we must go! We must escape! They will kill you! Think of Egypt!
- Cleopatra: Think of Egypt? Always Egypt! But Caesar is dead! My emperor!
- Apollodorus: That dream is gone.
- Cleopatra: Gone. Yes, gone. What do I care for empire now? Caesar is dead! My lover is dead!
- Apollodorus: He didn't love you.
- Cleopatra: You lie!
- [whips Apollodorus]
- Cleopatra: You lie! You lie!
- Cleopatra: Do you see the way I'm dressed?
- Marc Antony: What about it?
- Cleopatra: I'm dressed to lure you in!
- Cleopatra: Will you forgive me for being such a fool? I should have known that Antony is not Antony for nothing.
- 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.
- Cleopatra: The sound of the stars. They must think we're funny people. Scheming to destroy each other, as if we had forever to live!
- Octavian: Who is this poisonous snake that wrecks our men? Caesar first and now Antony. When will it end?
- 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!
- Egyptian Messenger: [to Cleopatra] Royal Egypt, Caesar is dead!
- Apollodorus: How was this? By whom?
- Egyptian Messenger: I don't know, but I heard them cry, "Brutus, Cassius!" As I got off through the streets I heard them shout, "Caesar is a traitor to Rome!"
- Cleopatra: Where is he? Where is Caesar?
- Egyptian Messenger: Dead, Majesty. The body lies at the foot of Pompey's statue. No one will touch it.
- Cleopatra: I will.
- Apollodorus: [sees Cleopatra wearing a bejeweled gown with a large cape] I never saw anything so beautiful!
- Cleopatra: Let me show you.
- [poses]
- Cleopatra: How do you like this?
- Apollodorus: Gorgeous!
- Cleopatra: Or do you like this?
- [poses a different way]
- Apollodorus: [laughs lightly] I am only a man. How can I tell?