Cleopatra Quotes
35 quotes by 24 authors
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I mean she's Cleopatra... shouldn't she and Antony have known better? They were so different..." "Variety is the spice of life" "And from a thousand…
— Ally Carter
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I never really thought about how when I look at the moon it;s the same moon as Shakespeare and Marie Antoinette and George Washington and…
— Susan Beth Pfeffer
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The theme of the dance was "Great Romances," or some such nonsense. There were projections of supposedly great couples from the past on the walls…
— Gabrielle Zevin
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You still don't get it, do you, Margaret?' Kat smiled almost sadly. 'We never had to steal the Antony. All we had to do was…
— Ally Carter
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For throughout history, you can read the stories of women who - against all the odds - got being a woman right, but ended up…
— Caitlin Moran
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Here was a woman about the year 1800 writing without hate, without bitterness, without fear, without protest, without preaching. That was how Shakespeare wrote, I…
— Virginia Woolf
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The truth is very few of us are related to Napoleon or Cleopatra. Although, those are bad examples as I am actually descended from both…
— Jim Piddock
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Girls have always wanted to be pretty, even in Egyptian times. Cleopatra wore all that eyeliner, you know.
— Rita Ora
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Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two famed seductions, which…
— Stacy Schiff
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By the time Florence Nightingale got her neurotic hands on Cleopatra, she had been mangled beyond recognition by both history and literature.
— Stacy Schiff
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No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did.
— Stacy Schiff
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Certainly, I am writing as a 21st-century woman, so I am much more inclined to view her as a three-dimensional woman. I think we keep…
— Stacy Schiff
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Cleopatra had one great advantage. She lived at a time when female sovereigns were not anomalies. And when women enjoyed rights they would not again…
— Stacy Schiff
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Powerful women are either sexually voracious rulers like Catherine the Great or Elizabeth I, or treacherous bitches like Cleopatra or Helen of Troy.
— Bill Gates
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Cleopatra. Think you there was or might be such a man As this I dreamt of? Dolabella. Gentle madam, no.
— William Shakespeare
Who Wrote These Cleopatra Quotes
24 authors contributed a total of 35 Cleopatra Quotes as follows: