Cleopatra

Quotes

• “Nought under heaven so strongly doth allureThe sense of man, and all his mind possess,As Beauty's lovely bait, that doth...”
• “It was a pleasure merely to hear the sound of her voice, with which, like an instrument of many strings, she could pass ...”
• “The secret is always to wear the same scent, until it becomes a personal, untransferable trademark, something that ident...”
• “O, wither'd is the garland of the war!The soldier's pole is fall'n; young boys and girlsAre level now with men; the odds...”
• “Isabel Allende "Language of Flowers" anthologized in The Sweet Breathing of Plants: Women Writing on the Green World edi...”
• “All strange and terrible events are welcome, But comforts we despise; our size of sorrow, Proportion'd to our cause, mus...”
• “William Shakespeare, in Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV, sc. 13, Cleopatra responding to Charmains request to "be comforted...”
• “Cleopatra VII (VI), Chapter XIII of E. R. Bevan's House of Ptolemy, 1923)”
• “Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.”
• “Peace, peace! Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,That sucks the nurse asleep?”
• “My salad days,When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,To say as I said then!”
• “He was dispos'd to mirth; but on the suddenA Roman thought hath struck him.”
• “Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, Book V (1596), Canto VIII, stanzas 1-2”
• “William Shakespeare, in Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, sc. 2, Enobarbus”
• “Cleopatra as portrayed by Elizabeth Taylor, in Cleopatra (1963)”
• “Age cannot wither her, nor custom staleHer infinite variety...”
• “I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life.”
• “Cleopatra by James Grout (part of the Encyclopædia Romana)”
• “Where's my serpent of old Nile?For so he calls me.”
• “Plutarch, in Lives, Antony and Cleopatra, Ch. 8”
• “Kings are not elected. Gods are not elected.”
• “Blaise Pascal, in Pensées (1658), No. 32”
• “Eternity was in our lips and eyes.”
• “Speaking of Antony, Act I, scene v”
• “I have Immortal longings in me.”
• “Plutarch, in Life of Antony”
• “Cleopatra VII Philopator”
• “Cleopatra on the Web”
• “Act III, scene xv”
• “Act I, scene ii”
• “Act V, scene ii”