Quotes About Cleopatra Love

#1. Antony and Cleopatra: "what love, what accomplishments, what repetitions of natural affections passed between them is not for vulgar minds to imagine, none but so great hearts know them.

James Shapiro

#2. Great is the man who can overcome the
world, but greater still is the man who can
overcome himself, for he will have the world
spinning on the palm of his hand.

Confucius

#3. Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.

Ellen DeGeneres

#4. Her passions are made of nothing but the finest part of pure love; we cannot call her winds and waters, sighs and tears; they are greater storms and tempests than almanacs can report ...

William Shakespeare

#5. I was startled by his touch. I hadn't realized he was so close to me, because I seemed so far from myself.

Stephanie Dray

#6. The movie I was working on, "Cleopatra", it's about how destructive a force love can be. But maybe that's what every story is about.

Jess Walter

#7. CLEOPATRA: If it be love indeed, tell me how much. ANTONY: There's beggary in the love that can be reckoned. CLEOPATRA: I'll set a bourne how far to be belov'd. ANTONY: Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.

William Shakespeare

#8. Vanity is illustrated in the cause and effect of love, as in the case of Cleopatra.

Blaise Pascal

#9. The curves of his smile become the waves in my ocean.

Stephanie Dray

#10. Xxx you can't escape yourself, and you're the only thing that hurts you in the long run.

Max Gladstone

#11. If it be love indeed, tell me how much.
There's beggary in the love that can be reckon'd.
I'll set a bourn how far to be belov'd.
Then must thou needs find out new heaven, new earth.
Antony and Cleopatra - Act 1, Scene 1

William Shakespeare

#12. I wouldn't dare to speculate as to Cleopatra's falling in love. Her relationships are too convenient for that.

Stacy Schiff

#13. CLEOPATRA: My salad days,
When I was green in judgment: cold in blood,
To say as I said then! But, come, away;
Get me ink and paper:
He shall have every day a several greeting,
Or I'll unpeople Egypt.

William Shakespeare

#14. War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

Ron Paul

#15. I think all novels are contemporary. When people went to see 'Antony-Cleopatra' at the Globe in the 16th century, they were not going to get a history lesson on the Roman Empire. It was about love, sex, and also about dynastic troubles.

Richard Flanagan

#16. The April's in her eyes: it is love's Spring,
And these the showers to bring it on..

William Shakespeare

#17. So I learned two things that night, and the next day, from him: the perfection of a moment, and the fleeting nature of it.

Margaret George

#18. Cleopatra was on a political mission to save her country and her power, but what we remember about her are these two famed seductions, which are a matter of politics, not a matter of love.

Stacy Schiff

#19. We often walk without knowing the beautiful and the mysterious art created behind us by our shadows.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#20. I would love to play Nefertiti or Cleopatra or the Queen of Sheba. We preserve more male history than we do female. We have to preserve [female history]. No more complaining. We have to do it.

Zoe Saldana