Cleopatra The corridors are dark, gentlemen… but you mustn't be afraid. I am with you.
Played by Elizabeth Taylor 
Cleopatra (1963) · 38 quotes
Cleopatra (1963) · 38 quotes
Most-quoted character in Cleopatra (1963): in 18 of its 38 quotes
Most scenes with: Caesar (3), Antony (2)
How strangely awake I feel. As if living had been just a long dream. Someone else’s dream. Now finished at last...
More lines from Cleopatra
11 quotes Cleopatra Cleopatra We must not disappoint the mighty Caesar! The Romans tell fabulous tales of my baths and handmaidens... and my morals!
Cleopatra I will not be told where I can go and where I cannot go!
Cleopatra 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.
Cleopatra 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!
Cleopatra There are never enough hours in the days of a queen, and her nights have too many.
Cleopatra We'll make this our beginning. Beginning with tonight... You must never envy Caesar, or anyone, anything else again.
Cleopatra How it hurts. How love can stab the heart.
Cleopatra That’s how Romans frighten little girls. They like to frighten little girls!
Cleopatra [On Antony's death]
Strange, there has never been... such a silence.
Cleopatra Octavian, when I am ready to die, I will die.
Scenes with Cleopatra
6 scenes
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?
Cleopatra Catullus doesn't approve of you... why haven't you had him killed?
Because I approve of him.
Cleopatra [kicking a cushion off her dais for Caesar to kneel on during her coronation]
You have such bony knees.
Not only bony, but unaccustomed to this sort of thing.
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.
Are we too late, do you think, if we choose life ?
Cleopatra Better too late than never.
Cleopatra You will kneel.
I will what?
Cleopatra On your knees.
Cleopatra I asked it of Julius Caesar. I demand it of you!
Cleopatra The way to prevent war is to be ready for it!
Sosigenes Have 300 warships ever been built for war without war?
