Cleopatra (1963)

Share this quote on facebook The corridors are dark, gentlemen… but you mustn't be afraid. I am with you.

Share this quote on facebook We must not disappoint the mighty Caesar! The Romans tell fabulous tales of my baths and handmaidens... and my morals!

Share this quote on facebook I will not be told where I can go and where I cannot go!

Share this quote on facebook I am the Nile. I will have sons. Isis has told me… My breasts are full of love and life. My hips are rounded and well apart. Such women, they say, have sons.

Share this quote on facebook How dare you and the rest of your barbarians set fire to my library? Play conqueror all you want, Mighty Caesar! Rape, murder, pillage thousands, millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought!

Share this quote on facebook There are never enough hours in the days of a queen, and her nights have too many.

Share this quote on facebook We'll make this our beginning. Beginning with tonight... You must never envy Caesar, or anyone, anything else again.

Share this quote on facebook How it hurts. How love can stab the heart.

Share this quote on facebook That’s how Romans frighten little girls. They like to frighten little girls!

Share this quote on facebook [On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence.

Share this quote on facebook Octavian, when I am ready to die, I will die.

Share this quote on facebook [After the Asp has bitten her] How strangely awake I feel. As if living had been just a long dream. Someone else’s dream. Now finished at last...

Share this quote on facebook [Speaking of the Grand Eunuc])... a position not acquired without certain, shall we say, sacrifice.

Share this quote on facebook [After the execution of Pothinus] Flavius, return Apollodorus' dagger to him… but clean it first. It has Pothinus all over it.

Share this quote on facebook I do not understand why the eyes of a statue should always lack life.

Share this quote on facebook Remind him as always to keep his Legions intact, for they make the law legal.

Share this quote on facebook How many have loved you since him? One? Ten? Anyone? No one? Have they kissed you with Caesar's lips? Touched you with his hands? Is it his name you cry out in the dark? And afterwards, alone, has he reproached you and have you begged forgiveness of his memory?

Share this quote on facebook For so long now you have filled my life...like...like a great noise that I hear everywhere in my heart. I want to be free of you. Of wanting you. Of being afraid. But I will never...be free of you.

Share this quote on facebook Lovers always want so much never to have loved before...It becomes a game. Who loved whom first?

Share this quote on facebook From the first instant I saw you, entering Rome on that monstrous stone beast, shining in the sun like a little gold toy how I envied Caesar. Went suddenly sick with it. Not his conquests or his triumphs. Not his titles of the mob. I envied him you.

Share this quote on facebook Everything that I shall ever want to hold or look upon or have or be is here now with you.

Share this quote on facebook Why are you not dead? Why do you live? How do you live? Why do you not lie at the deepest hole of the sea, bloodless, and bloated, and at peace with honorable death?

Share this quote on facebook [Dying in Cleopatra's arms] A kiss...to take my breath away...

Share this quote on facebook Antony is dead? You say that as if it were an everyday occurrence. The soup is hot, the soup is cold. Antony is alive, Antony is dead.

Share this quote on facebook I am Caesar.

Share this quote on facebook Julius Caesar: You all look so impressive. Any one of you could be king.
Pothinus: His Majesty King Ptolemy, kindred of Horus and Ra, beloved of Thoth...
Julius Caesar: Et cetera, et cetera; you welcome me. And I, Gaius Julius Caesar, Consul of the Roman Senate, Pontifex Maximus, et cetera, et cetera, thank you.

Share this quote on facebook Julius Caesar: Ah, yes. I seem to recall some mention of an obsession you have about your divinity... Isis, is it not?
Cleopatra: I shall have to insist that you mind what you say. I am Isis. I am worshiped by millions who believe it. You are not to confuse what I am with the so-called divine origin which every Roman general seems to acquire together with his shield. It was, uh, Venus you chose to be descended from, wasn't it?

Share this quote on facebook Agrippa: Well versed in the natural sciences and mathematics. She speaks seven languages proficiently. Were she not a woman one would consider her to be an intellectual. Nothing bores me so much as an intellectual!
Julius Caesar: Makes a better admiral of you, Agrippa.

Share this quote on facebook Cleopatra: Catullus doesn't approve of you... why haven't you had him killed?
Caesar: Because I approve of him.

Share this quote on facebook Cleopatra: [kicking a cushion off her dais for Caesar to kneel on during her coronation] You have such bony knees.
Caesar: Not only bony, but unaccustomed to this sort of thing.

Share this quote on facebook Marc Antony: Your tongue is old, but sharp, Cicero. Be careful how you waggle it. One day it will cut off your head.
Cicero: 'Twill more likely be your sword, Antony: 'tis just as sharp, and quicker... and frightened of heads.

Share this quote on facebook Marc Antony: Octavian... this son of Caesar, does it upset you?
Octavian: No.
Marc Antony: You were so shut at the mouth just now one would think your words were are precious to you as your gold.
Octavian: Like my gold, I used them where they are worth most.
Marc Antony: Ah! And your virtue? [Leans over to him] My friend has a friend.
Octavian: That too.
Marc Antony: You know, Octavian... it's possible that when you die, you will die without ever having been alive.

Share this quote on facebook Antony: Queens. Queens. Strip them naked as any other woman, they are no longer queens.
Rufio: It is also difficult to tell the rank of a naked general. Generals without armies are naked indeed.

Share this quote on facebook Germanicus: [in the Roman Senate] Antony! Stay not too long in Alexandria!
[General laughter]
Octavian: Germanicus, stay not too long in Rome.
{More laughter]

Share this quote on facebook Cleopatra: Without you Antony, this is not a world I want to live in, much less conquer.Because for me there would be no love anywhere. Do you want me to die with you ? I will. Or do you want me to live with you ? Whatever you choose.
Antony: Are we too late, do you think, if we choose life ?
Cleopatra: Better too late than never.

Share this quote on facebook Cleopatra: You will kneel.
Antony: I will what?
Cleopatra: On your knees.
Antony: [indignant] You dare ask the Proconsul of Rome-
Cleopatra: I asked it of Julius Caesar. I demand it of you!

Share this quote on facebook Cleopatra: The way to prevent war is to be ready for it!
Sosigenes: Have 300 warships ever been built for war without war?

Share this quote on facebook Agrippa: [After discovering Cleopatra's gold-clad body, with her servants Charmian and Eiras, who have been bitten by the asp that killed Cleopatra] Was this well done of your lady?
Charmian: Extremely well, befitting the last of so many noble rulers.