"No one in the modern world controls the……" — Stacy Schiff

"No one in the modern world controls the wealth or territory that Cleopatra did."

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31 Quotes by Stacy Schiff

Stacy Schiff has 31 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It has always been preferable to attribute a woman's success to her beauty rather than to her brains, to reduce…
No one sits on the stoop when she's a kid and thinks, 'I want to be a biographer when I…
Ancient history is oddly short on incorrect omens.
A rich, multi-dimensional tour of Naples, most brilliant, battered, and bewildering of cities, here fixed to the page with wit…
I checked to see if there'd been a really good book published in the last few decades. Then I started…
We don't know how Cleopatra spent her days, but we do know how other Hellenistic monarchs spent their days. There…
An interesting thing about book groups, it seems to me, is that there is no correlation between a brilliant book…
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in…
I'm a sucker for lost worlds. I was nostalgic even as a child. I was happiest in my hometown library…
My next book is on the Salem witch trials. As a small-town Massachusetts girl, this makes me very happy. So…
For a few thousand years, women had no history. Marriage was our calling, and meekness our virtue. Over the last…
Strangely enough, politics may just be the one realm in which having kids imposes no penalty on women. Kids are…

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More Cleopatra Quotes

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The studio system collapsed only when Elizabeth Taylor charged $1 million for Cleopatra. — Leslie Caron
Snooki is really beautiful and looks quite like Elizabeth Taylor in 'Cleopatra.' She has the same bone structure. I'm kind… — Margaret Cho
She was not a white woman. She was not a Greek... Until the emergence of the doctrine of white superiority,… — John Henrik Clarke
Golf acts as a corrective against sinful pride. I attribute the insane arrogance of the later Roman Emperors almost entirely… — P.G. Wodehouse
Watch constantly against those things which are thought to be no temptations. The most poisonous serpents are found where the… — Charles Spurgeon
I really don't remember much about Cleopatra. There were a lot of other things going on. — Elizabeth Taylor
I'm probably the highest paid outdoor entertainer since Cleopatra, — Gypsy Rose Lee
I'm so excited that my label Rocker Records has partnered with Cleopatra Records to put out this collection of RARE… — Unknown Author
Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something. — Will Cuppy
CLEOPATRA: If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY: There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned.… — William Shakespeare
Some air you inhale was exhaled by Cleopatra. — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra. — Blaise Pascal

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