Cleopatra Quotes

• All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

  Cleopatra

  Terrible Events, Comfort, Seduction

  "Shakespeare and Dickens: The Dynamics of Influence". Book by Valerie Gager, Valerie L. Gager, Cambridge University Press, p. 266, 1996.

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• I will not be triumphed over.

  Cleopatra

  Winning

  "Cleopatra: from history to myth", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.

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• Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.

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  Greatness, Known

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• Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

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  Able, Fool, Hundred

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• My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

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  Winning, Honour

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• And make death proud to take us.

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  Proud

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• Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.

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  Men, History, Historical

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• [At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.

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  Lying, Soil, Egyptian

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• In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.

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  Fake People, Praise, Antony

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• Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

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  Leadership, Kings, Women

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