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Cleopatra Quotes

d. 30 BC

Also known as: Cleopatra VII, Cleopatra VII Philopator

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

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1623)

I have Immortal longings in me.

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1623)

Eternity was in our lips and eyes.

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1623)

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

He was dispos'd to mirth; but on the sudden
A Roman thought hath struck him.

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1623)

Peace, peace! Dost thou not see my baby at my breast,
That sucks the nurse asleep?

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1623)

Where’s my serpent of old Nile?
For so he calls me.

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1623)

My salad days,
When I was green in judgment, cold in blood,
To say as I said then!

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1623)

O, wither’d is the garland of the war!
The soldier’s pole is fall'n; young boys and girls
Are level now with men; the odds is gone,
And there is nothing left remarkable
Beneath the visiting moon.

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1623)

Good sirs, take heart: —
We'll bury him; and then, what's brave, what's noble,
Let's do it after the high Roman fashion,
And make Death proud to take us. Come, away:
This case of that huge spirit now is cold. —
Ah, women, women! — come; we have no friend
But resolution, and the briefest end.

Antony and Cleopatra by William Shakespeare (1623)

Kings are not elected. Gods are not elected.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Cleopatra (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.