Cleopatra Nose Quotes & Sayings

The Iroquois take dreams very seriously. They see them as the secret wishes of the soul
the heart's desire, so to speak. Not all dreams, maybe, but the important ones. [p.254] — Kim Edwards

I'm a bit of lunatic with shoes and jackets and jeans. It's just how I am. — Graham Coxon

There's no way I could look like this without them. — Ruth Warrick

Nature, always inartistic, takes pleasure in creating the impossible. — Jerome K. Jerome

Cleopatra's nose, had it been shorter, the whole face of the world would have been changed. — Blaise Pascal

I'm a doctor and a politician. Weapons are foreign to me. — Ayad Allawi

Even for the most difficult scenes, and there are difficult scenes in the film, and because Michael Haneke is such a great film-maker - I think a great film-maker is not only being inspired, but how to do it, how to make it as real as possible, knowing that it's not real. — Isabelle Huppert

Since the world never faults a man who refuses to yield ... it is generally recognized that weak men live in obedience to the world's will, while the strong obey only their own. — Giacomo Leopardi

[On vanity:] The nose of Cleopatra: if it had been shorter, the face of the earth would have changed. — Blaise Pascal

But the ifs of history: if Cleopatra's nose had been one inch longer,' he said, 'would Antony have lost the battle of Actium? — William Dalrymple

J.B. Bury once followed Pascal in suggesting that the cause of the foundation of the Roman Empire was the length of Cleopatra's nose: had her features not been perfectly proportioned, Mark Antony would not have been entranced; had he not been entranced he would not have allied himself with Egypt against Octavian; had he not made that alliance, the battle of Actium would not have been fought - and so on. — Alasdair MacIntyre