Cleopatra Quotes & Sayings

My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely. — Cleopatra

I will not be triumphed over. — Cleopatra

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

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

Celerity is never more admired than by the negligent. — Cleopatra

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

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

[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. — Cleopatra

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