Cleopatra: Catullus doesn't approve of you. Why haven't you had him killed? Julius Caesar: Because *I* approve of *him.* - Rex Harrison (as Julius Caesar) in Cleopatra (1963)

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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, even millions of human beings! But neither you nor any other barbarian has the right to destroy one human thought! - Elizabeth Taylor (as Cleopatra) in Cleopatra (1963)

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Cleopatra: I am the Nile. I will have sons. Isis has told me. - Elizabeth Taylor (as Cleopatra) in Cleopatra (1963)

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Cleopatra: I will not be told where I can go and where I cannot go! - Elizabeth Taylor (as Cleopatra) in Cleopatra (1963)

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Cleopatra: The way to prevent war is to be ready for it! Sosigenes: Have 300 warships ever been built for war without war? - Hume Cronyn (as Sosigenes) in Cleopatra (1963)

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Cleopatra: There are never enough hours in the days of a queen, and her nights have too many. - Elizabeth Taylor (as Cleopatra) in Cleopatra (1963)

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Agrippa: Nothing bores me so much as an intellectual! Julius Caesar: Makes a better admiral of you, Agrippa. - Rex Harrison (as Julius Caesar) in Cleopatra (1963)

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Julius Caesar: [after the execution of Pothinus] Return Apollodorus's dagger to him, but clean it first. It has Pothinus all over it. - Rex Harrison (as Julius Caesar) in Cleopatra (1963)

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Julius Caesar: [speaking of the Grand Eunuch] ... a position not acquired without some, shall we say, sacrifices? - Rex Harrison (as Julius Caesar) in Cleopatra (1963)

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Julius Caesar: Ah, yes. I seem to recall some mention of an obsession you have about your divinity... Isis, isn't it? Cleopatra: I shall have to insist that you mind what you say. I AM Isis. I am worshipped 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? - Elizabeth Taylor (as Cleopatra) in Cleopatra (1963)

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