Cleopatra Quotes

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

History existed to be retold, with more panache but not necessarily greater accuracy.

~ Stacy Schiff

Selene’s life is a lesson to us that the trajectory of women’s equality hasn’t always been a forward march. In some ways the ancients were more advanced than we are today, there have been setbacks before and may be more in the future.

~ Stephanie Dray

I knew that a man was not only himself but also who he wished to be.

~ Stephanie Dray

They'll try to make you forget who you are or try to make you ashamed. But you mustn't forget and you mustn't be ashamed.

~ Stephanie Dray

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

~ Stephanie Dray

You must make a choice,” the Goddess said.“Is that my only choice – to choose between men?” I asked. “I want what Mother had!”“Your mother chose two men,” she said with light laughter.“No! She chose independence for her country. She chose power and freedom,” I yelled.Almost as if in response, a pulsating energy moved up from the ground into my bare feet. It thrummed up my body and radiated out in a bright light, first from my toes, then from my fingertips, then the top of my head.“I choose power,” I said. “I choose freedom.

~ Vicky Alvear Shecter

These heads sheltered by umbrellas be they of Zeb-un-Nisa, or Catherine of Cleopatra or Fenichka live with their own stories

~ Suman Pokhrel

THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!

~ Tom Stoppard