Cleopatra Quotes
35 quotes by 24 authors
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The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra.
— Leslie Caron
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Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind of obsessed with 'Jersey Shore.'…
— Margaret Cho
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She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority, Cleopatra was generally pictured as…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely to the fact that, never…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the sweetest flowers grow. Cleopatra was…
— Charles Spurgeon
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I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on.
— Elizabeth Taylor
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I'm probably the highest paid outdoor entertainer since Cleopatra,
— Gypsy Rose Lee
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I'm so excited that my label Rocker Records has partnered with Cleopatra Records to put out this collection of RARE and UNIQUE kick ass rock…
— Carmine Appice
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Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.
— Will Cuppy
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CLEOPATRA: If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY: There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. CLEOPATRA: I'll set a bourne…
— William Shakespeare
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Some air you inhale was exhaled by Cleopatra.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.
— Blaise Pascal
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I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started with what Cleopatra would have…
— Stacy Schiff
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We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There has been a great amount…
— Stacy Schiff
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There is a certain kind of respect for authenticity today that there wasn't back in the days when they did 'Cleopatra,' where everything looked like…
— John Milius
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I will wait for Cleopatra, for I know my time must come. And I'm getting ready for wherever she'll be at-tra, cause I'm getting stronger…
— Jonathan Richman
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If you are really Master of your Fate, it shouldn't make any difference to you whether Cleopatra or the Bearded Lady is your mate.
— Ogden Nash
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Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today.…
— Stacy Schiff
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The vanity extended most of all to his library, arguably the real love of Cicero's life. It is difficult to name anything in which he…
— Stacy Schiff
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Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history; that of women and power. Clever women, Euripides had warned hundreds of years earlier,…
— Stacy Schiff
Who Wrote These Cleopatra Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 35 Cleopatra Quotes as follows: