Cleopatra Quotes

“I read that the real Cleopatra wasn’t even that great-looking. She seduced everyone with how clever she was.”

“Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent. ”

“Give me my robe. Put on my crown. I have Immortal longings in me. Now no more The juice of Egypt’s grape shall moist this lip. ”

“I found you as a morsel cold upon Dead Caesar’s trencher. ”

“She shall be buried by her Antony. No grave upon the earth will clip in it A pair so famous.”

“Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. Other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry Where most she satisfies. ”

“Antony Shall be brought drunken forth, and I shall see Some squeaking Cleopatra boy my greatness I’th’posture of a whore. ”

“The odds is gone, And there is nothing left remarkable Beneath the visiting moon.”

“Eternity was in our lips and in our eyes. ”

“My salad days, When I was green in judgment, cold in blood. ”

“Egypt, thou knew’st too well My heart was to thy rudder tied by th’strings And thou shouldst tow me after. ”

″ I am dying, Egypt, dying. Only I here importune death awhile until Of many thousand kisses the poor last I lay upon thy lips ”

″ Now boast thee, death, in thy possession lies A lass unparalleled. ”

“O, whither hast thou led me, Egypt? See How I convey my shame out of thine eyes, By looking back what I have left behind ‘Stroyed in dishonor.”