Cleopatra (1963 film)

"The corridors are dark, gentlemen… but you mustn't be afraid. I am with you."

"We must not disappoint the mighty Caesar! The Romans tell fabulous tales of my baths and handmaidens... and my morals!"

"I will not be told where I can go and where I cannot go!"

"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."

"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!"

"There are never enough hours in the days of a queen, and her nights have too many."

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

"How it hurts. How love can stab the heart."

"That’s how Romans frighten little girls. They like to frighten little girls!"

"[On Antony's death] Strange, there has never been... such a silence."

"Octavian, when I am ready to die, I will die."

"[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..."

"[Speaking of the Grand Eunuc])... a position not acquired without certain, shall we say, sacrifice."

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

"I do not understand why the eyes of a statue should always lack life."

"Remind him as always to keep his Legions intact, for they make the law legal."

"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?"

"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."

"Lovers always want so much never to have loved before...It becomes a game. Who loved whom first?"

"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."

"Everything that I shall ever want to hold or look upon or have or be is here now with you."

"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?"

"[Dying in Cleopatra's arms] A kiss...to take my breath away..."

"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."

"I am Caesar."

"Elizabeth Taylor - Cleopatra"

"Rex Harrison - Julius Caesar"

"Richard Burton - Marc Antony"

"Roddy McDowall - Octavian"

"Andrew Keir - Agrippa"