Cleopatra Quotations

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.

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

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent.

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

Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.

Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.

In praising Antony I have dispraised Caesar.

And make death proud to take us.

Is he a good man?" "Define 'good'.

[At Marc Antony's tomb:] Nothing could part us in life, but now in death we are likely to change places, you the Roman lying here in Egyptian soil, and I, helpless woman that I am, being buried in Italy.

I will not be triumphed over.