--- title: "25 Cleopatra Quotes By Stacy Schiff" description: "25 Cleopatra quotes by Stacy Schiff. Plus more from Stacy Schiff and more Cleopatra sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/794/stacy-schiff-7881_actual_in-plutarch-her-voice-begins-to-come-out_1638761.png" --- > [In 'Plutarch,' her voice begins to come out; there are actual 2,000-year-old quotes from Cleopatra, and they are sly and saucy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/in-plutarch-her-voice-begins-to-come-out-there-are-actual-2-000-year/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/794/stacy-schiff-7881_actual_in-plutarch-her-voice-begins-to-come-out_1638761.png) > [I wouldn't dare to speculate as to Cleopatra's falling in love. Her relationships are too convenient for that.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/i-wouldn-t-dare-to-speculate-as-to-cleopatra-s-falling-in-love-her/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/103/stacy-schiff-7881_cleopatra_i-wouldn-t-dare-to-speculate-as-to-cleop_2119497.png) > [“History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/history-existed-to-be-retold-with-more-panache-but-not-necessarily/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/74b/stacy-schiff-7881_cleopatra_history-existed-to-be-retold-with-more-p_215021.png) > [By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/by-the-time-florence-nightingale-got-her-neurotic-hands-on-cleopatra/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fac/stacy-schiff-7881_been_by-the-time-florence-nightingale-got-her_1187852.png) > [No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/no-one-in-the-modern-world-controls-the-wealth-or-territory-that/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/98d/stacy-schiff-7881_cleopatra_no-one-in-the-modern-world-controls-the_103230.png) > [We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/we-don-t-know-how-cleopatra-spent-her-days-but-we-do-know-how-other/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00a/stacy-schiff-7881_amount_we-don-t-know-how-cleopatra-spent-her-da_3170780.png) > [What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/what-we-know-about-cleopatra-s-looks-is-based-purely-on-her-coin/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f6/stacy-schiff-7881_about_what-we-know-about-cleopatra-s-looks-is_76326.jpg) > [I once interviewed David Herbert Donald, the Lincoln historian, and we talked about how one deals with the secondary sources and the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/i-once-interviewed-david-herbert-donald-the-lincoln-historian-and-we/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c76/stacy-schiff-7881_about_i-once-interviewed-david-herbert-donald_1136167.png) > [Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/cleopatra-had-one-great-advantage-she-lived-at-a-time-when-female/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/663/stacy-schiff-7881_advantage_cleopatra-had-one-great-advantage-she-li_1976078.jpg) > [You have to scuba dive in the Alexandrian harbor if you want to see what remains of the lighthouse of Cleopatra's day,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/you-have-to-scuba-dive-in-the-alexandrian-harbor-if-you-want-to-see/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41b/stacy-schiff-7881_cleopatra_you-have-to-scuba-dive-in-the-alexandria_816606.png) > [I went out to the desert where Cleopatra camped out with her mercenary army. It's a desolate outpost. Nothing has changed since…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/i-went-out-to-the-desert-where-cleopatra-camped-out-with-her/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7b2/stacy-schiff-7881_against_i-went-out-to-the-desert-where-cleopatra_2658329.png) > [Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/cleopatra-stood-at-one-of-the-most-dangerous-intersections-in-history/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/464/stacy-schiff-7881_cleopatra_cleopatra-stood-at-one-of-the-most-dange_208257.png) > [From every ancient source, we have testimony to Cleopatra's irresistible charm, as Plutarch has it, to her ability to speak many languages…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/from-every-ancient-source-we-have-testimony-to-cleopatra-s/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/787/stacy-schiff-7881_ability_from-every-ancient-source-we-have-testim_2614021.png) > [We're talking about, essentially, the Roman historians, who wrote Cleopatra into the story mostly so that they could talk about the rise…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/we-re-talking-about-essentially-the-roman-historians-who-wrote/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b2d/stacy-schiff-7881_about_we-re-talking-about-essentially-the-roma_2256248.png) > [“Plutarch clearly notes that her beauty “was not in itself so remarkable that none could be compared with her, or that no…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/plutarch-clearly-notes-that-her-beauty-was-not-in-itself-so/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/9b2/stacy-schiff-7881_beauty_plutarch-clearly-notes-that-her-beauty-w_982558.png) > [“While it is unclear who had done so, someone had produced a heroine. Cleopatra's was an honorable death, a dignified death, an…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/while-it-is-unclear-who-had-done-so-someone-had-produced-a-heroine/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0a2/stacy-schiff-7881_cleopatra_while-it-is-unclear-who-had-done-so-some_1354632.png) > [ “\[Cleopatra's\] power has been made to derive from her sexuality, for obvious reason; as one of Caesar's murderers had noted, 'How much… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/cleopatra-s-power-has-been-made-to-derive-from-her-sexuality-for/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3cd/stacy-schiff-7881_cleopatra_cleopatra-s-power-has-been-made-to-deriv_1540427.jpg) > [“Against a powerful enchantress there is no contest. Against a woman who ensnares a man in the coils of her serpentine intelligence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/against-a-powerful-enchantress-there-is-no-contest-against-a-woman/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/169/stacy-schiff-7881_antidote_against-a-powerful-enchantress-there-is_180780.jpg) > [“The personal inevitably trumps the political, and the erotic trumps all: We will remember that Cleopatra slept with Julius Caesar and Mark…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/the-personal-inevitably-trumps-the-political-and-the-erotic-trumps/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4ec/stacy-schiff-7881_cleopatra_the-personal-inevitably-trumps-the-polit_1904210.png) > [“A capable, clear-eyed sovereign, she knew how to build a fleet, suppress an insurrection, control a currency, alleviate a famine. An eminent…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/a-capable-clear-eyed-sovereign-she-knew-how-to-build-a-fleet-suppress/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6b8/stacy-schiff-7881_cleopatra_a-capable-clear-eyed-sovereign-she-knew_2832330.jpg) > [“It would be difficult to say to whom Cleopatra was more vital in 32: the man to whom she was the partner,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/it-would-be-difficult-to-say-to-whom-cleopatra-was-more-vital-in-32/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/010/stacy-schiff-7881_cleopatra_it-would-be-difficult-to-say-to-whom-cle_2906419.png) > [Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/here-you-have-an-incredibly-ambitious-accomplished-woman-who-comes-up/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b56/stacy-schiff-7881_accomplished_here-you-have-an-incredibly-ambitious-ac_1794963.jpg) > [Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/cleopatra-was-on-a-political-mission-to-save-her-country-and-her/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df5/stacy-schiff-7881_about_cleopatra-was-on-a-political-mission-to_3119257.png) > [Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/certainly-i-am-writing-as-a-21st-century-woman-so-i-am-much-more/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e6b/stacy-schiff-7881_accomplishments_certainly-i-am-writing-as-a-21st-century_2925004.png) > [The interesting thing about Cleopatra is that she is such a shape-shifter. I mean through history we've all molded her to our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/the-interesting-thing-about-cleopatra-is-that-she-is-such-a-shape/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4bd/stacy-schiff-7881_about_the-interesting-thing-about-cleopatra-is_325744.png) ## Other authors on Cleopatra ## More by Stacy Schiff > [As always, an educated woman was a dangerous woman.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/as-always-an-educated-woman-was-a-dangerous-woman/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) > [Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And yes, I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/recently-a-study-proved-that-working-from-a-larger-less-cluttered/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) > [“She did not believe Fate as painstaking as her husband; she was more inclined to take matters into her own hands. She had ample…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/she-did-not-believe-fate-as-painstaking-as-her-husband-she-was-more/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) > [What we know about Cleopatra's looks is based purely on her coin portraits. Engraving was imperfect, and that when you are a ruler and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/what-we-know-about-cleopatra-s-looks-is-based-purely-on-her-coin/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) > [No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/no-one-in-the-modern-world-controls-the-wealth-or-territory-that/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) > [“Against a powerful enchantress there is no contest. Against a woman who ensnares a man in the coils of her serpentine intelligence - in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/against-a-powerful-enchantress-there-is-no-contest-against-a-woman/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) > [Motherhood is always an act of courage.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/motherhood-is-always-an-act-of-courage/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) > [Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/cleopatra-stood-at-one-of-the-most-dangerous-intersections-in-history/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) > [“Nabokov complained he was afflicted with total recall, an affliction of which he could be miraculously cured by the presence of a biographer.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/nabokov-complained-he-was-afflicted-with-total-recall-an-affliction/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) > [“History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/history-existed-to-be-retold-with-more-panache-but-not-necessarily/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) > [“Véra assumed her married name almost as a stage name; rarely has matrimony so much represented a profession. It was one of the ironies…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/v-ra-assumed-her-married-name-almost-as-a-stage-name-rarely-has/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) > [When a woman teams up with a snake a moral storm threatens somewhere.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/when-a-woman-teams-up-with-a-snake-a-moral-storm-threatens-somewhere/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) > [The interesting thing about Cleopatra is that she is such a shape-shifter. I mean through history we've all molded her to our times and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/the-interesting-thing-about-cleopatra-is-that-she-is-such-a-shape/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) > [parenting is an exercise in unintended consequences.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/parenting-is-an-exercise-in-unintended-consequences/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) > [Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are practically a necessity. For…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/strangely-enough-politics-may-just-be-the-one-realm-in-which-having/) [Stacy Schiff](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stacy-schiff/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cleopatra/stacy-schiff/#itemlist", "name": "25 Cleopatra Quotes By Stacy Schiff", "numberOfItems": 25, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "In 'Plutarch,' her voice begins to come out; there are actual 2,000-year-old quotes from Cleopatra, and they are sly and saucy.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Stacy Schiff" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stacy-schiff/in-plutarch-her-voice-begins-to-come-out-there-are-actual-2-000-year/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/794/stacy-schiff-7881_actual_in-plutarch-her-voice-begins-to-come-out_1638761.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/794/stacy-schiff-7881_actual_in-plutarch-her-voice-begins-to-come-out_1638761.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/794/stacy-schiff-7881_actual_in-plutarch-her-voice-begins-to-come-out_1638761.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“In 'Plutarch,' her voice begins to come out; there are actual 2,000-year-old quotes from Cleopatra, and they…” — Stacy Schiff", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I wouldn't dare to speculate as to Cleopatra's falling in love. 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