- Mark Antony: Women can make even war beautiful, Lucilius. Life might be short but there's always time for pleasure.
- Mark Antony: Join with me, Lucilius.
- Lucilius: The war is over. There are no other conquests to be made.
- Mark Antony: No? Only the most dangerous, my friend. A woman. A woman remains to be conquered.
- Lucilius: A woman?
- Mark Antony: A wench. A wench who I think gave Brutus ships and supplies while she pretended the most diplomatic friendship with Octavius and myself. There's a conquest to challenge a man. The serpent of the Nile, Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt.
- Mark Antony: I'll show you how to handle a serpent, Lucilius.
- Lucilius: For the conquest of a Queen.
- Mark Antony: A woman.
- Lucilius: Are women ever conquered?
- Cleopatra: Caesar was an old man. He wanted a woman of luxury. Antony is young. He wants the luxury of a woman.
- Cleopatra: It can rarely be told from a distance whether a man will appreciate the gleam of gold - more than the gleam in a woman's eye. So, I brought you both.
- Cleopatra: I promised you pleasure in Alexandria and you'll find me a woman who - keeps her promises.
- Lucilius: A serpent can be trusted more because we know how to defend ourselves against its venom. There is no defense against you.
- Mark Antony: Oh, if you were Anthony, you would prefer wine to freedom. Here is a more lasting comfort than the arms of a woman. Did you ever know a bottle of wine with ambition? Never.