Cleopatra Quotes

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

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

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

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

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

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

“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. ”

“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. ”

“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. ”

“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.”