Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
“History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.” — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Que ella que con su muerte le dice a nuestro César: "Me conquisté yo misma".” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Cæsar might have married her [Cleopatra], but he had a wife at home. There's always something. — Will Cuppy Copy Share Image
I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on. — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was… — John Henrik Clarke Copy Share Image
By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“As a famous historian once said, in all its history, Rome deigned to fear two people; one was Hannibal, the other was… — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“If fourteen people believe they were Cleopatra in a former life, does that mean that Cleopatra had split personality disorder?” — Patricia Briggs Copy Share Image
“Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love; we cannot call her winds and waters, sighs and… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually… — Jim Piddock Copy Share Image
I'm certainly no Cleopatra. I have legs like a schoolgirl and I don't know how I acquired the knack of attracting producers… — Rita Tushingham Copy Share Image
I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
What dazzles us in Stacy Schiff's Cleopatra are not the alluring mythologies about the evasive queen, but the astonishing if rare historical… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Watching and learning from the great Josette Bushell-Mingo, who was playing Cleopatra in Antony and Cleopatra at the time, and then to… — Gugu Mbatha-Raw Copy Share Image
Stacy Schiff is that rare combination: a first-rate historian and a brilliant storyteller. Using a wide range of sources, she spins straw… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“It is no surprise that the only woman in antiquity who could be the subject of a full-length biography is Cleopatra. Yet,… — Sarah B. Pomeroy Copy Share Image
CLEOPATRA: If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY: There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. CLEOPATRA: I'll… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“Plutarch clearly notes that her beauty “was not in itself so remarkable that none could be compared with her, or that no… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“While it is unclear who had done so, someone had produced a heroine. Cleopatra's was an honorable death, a dignified death, an… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“You must make a choice,” the Goddess said. “Is that my only choice – to choose between men?” I asked. “I want… — Vicky Alvear Shecter Copy Share Image
“CLEOPATRA TO THE ASP The bright mirror I braved: the devil in it Loved me like my soul, my soul: Now that… — Ted Hughes Copy Share Image
“I especially treasured my glimpses of Mother, Queen Cleopatra VII. She sat on a golden throne, looking as resplendent as one of… — Vicky Alvear Shecter Copy Share Image
“In the silence, I can hear Phoinix’s breaths, labored with the exertion of speaking so long. I do not dare to speak… — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
“A capable, clear-eyed sovereign, she knew how to build a fleet, suppress an insurrection, control a currency, alleviate a famine. An eminent… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“In her palace at Alexandria, Cleopatra begins her final night. The last of the pharaohs, who was not as beautiful as they… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
“If you find him sad, say I am dancing. If in mirth, report that I am sudden sick.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed.” — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. (Anthony and Cleopatra - William Shakespeare.)” — Sarah Stuart Copy Share Image
No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did. — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
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