Cleopatra’s Most Famous Quotes

I will not be triumphed over.

Beware of the glib tongue, for it is often found in an empty mind.

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

My honor was not yielded, but conquered merely.

I am a woman; what I say and do is sacred.

In my solitude, you haunt me with reviled memories.

I am closer to the gods than you can ever dream, fall upon your knees!

Nations crumble, Empires fall, I remain.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.

I dream my dreams now with open eyes, and make them come true.

There’s beggary in the love that can be reckoned.

I am my own woman, I won?t be managed.

Let it be known that we are fit to command ourselves.

With every breath, I feel the force around me.

Life is made of ever so many partings welded together.

The past cannot be cured.

I have immortal longings in me.

Give me to drink mandragora, that I might sleep out this great gap of time.

We Romans are rich, we?ve lots of gods, we can afford to sacrifice some.

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

I will not be triumphed over.

In my end is my beginning.

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

My honor was not yielded, but conquered merely.

What they do in heaven, we are ignorant of; What they do not in heaven, we are very sure of.

I am a queen bred and born, and will act as befits one.

Though age from folly could not give me freedom, it does from childishness.

Nature wants stuff and can’t dispense with what’s necessary, not what’s superfluous.

I seem to weep, but all enjoy a truer pleasure in those tears.

I have ransacked the earth, but am starved for want of what I seek.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me.

I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life.

For her, the fairest way to anywhere is the way following her great desire.

This is the way to rule, by my own example, not by orders.

I will not be triumphed over.

All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.

My honor was not yielded, but conquered merely.

In praising Antony, I have dispraised Caesar

I am fire and air; my other elements I give to baser life.

If it be love indeed, tell me how much.

My resolution’s placed, and I have nothing of woman in me.

Fool! Don’t you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.

Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have immortal longings in me.

Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale her infinite variety.

The stroke of death is as a lovers pinch, which hurts and is desired.

I have immortal longings in me.

Sir, I will eat no meat, I’ll not drink, sir.

Think on me, that am with Phoebus’ amorous pinches black, and wrinkled deep in time.

I am dying, Egypt, dying.

Ah, dear, if I be so, from my cold heart let heaven engender hail.

Rome, thou hast lost the breed of noble bloods.

Though it be honest, it is never good to bring bad news.

To business that we love, we rise betimes and go to it with delight.

Authority melts from me. Soon, I’ll wear a robe of sober colors.