Cleopatra quotes
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“I will not be triumphed over.”
-- CleopatraSource : "Cleopatra: from history to myth", www.theguardian.com. March 18, 2003.
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“All strange and terrible events are welcome, but comforts we despise.”
-- CleopatraSource : "Shakespeare and Dickens: The Dynamics of Influence". Book by Valerie Gager, Valerie L. Gager, Cambridge University Press, p. 266, 1996.
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“Fool! Don't you see now that I could have poisoned you a hundred times had I been able to live without you.”
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“My honour was not yielded, but conquered merely.”
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“Leave the fishing-rod, Great General, to us sovereigns of Pharos and Canopus. Your game is cities and kings and continents.”
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“Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.”
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“[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
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