Cleopatra quotes

Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatraand sank.

-John Mason Brown
  In the NewYork Post,11 Nov.

Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours; and though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose.

- SirThomas Browne
  The Garden of Cyrus, ch.5.

Give, you gods, Give to your boy, your Caesar, The rattle of a globe to play withal, Thisgewgaw world, and put him cheaply off: I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra.

-John Dryden
  Anthony.  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 2, sc.1.

Si la morale de Cle  opa" t re e u" t e  te   moins courte, la face du monde aurait change  . Son nez n'en serait pas devenu plus long. If Cleopatra's morality had been less short, the face of the world would have been altered. Her nose would not thereby have grown longer.

- Comte de properly Isidore Ducasse Lautre  amont
  Poe  sies, pt.2.

Le nez de Cle  opa"  tre: s'il e u" t e  te   plus court, toute la face de la terre aurait change  . Cleopatra'snose: if it had beenshorter the whole face of the earth would have been different.

- Blaise Pascal
c.1654^1662  Pense  es, no.162 (translated byA Krailsheimer).