Claudette Colbert credited as playing...
Cleopatra
- Marc Antony: I said things to Caesar I wish I hadn't.
- Cleopatra: Oh?
- Marc Antony: There's beauty in the Egyptian queen besides her face. Do you miss him?
- Cleopatra: No, he didn't love me.
- Marc Antony: Is that really the reason?
- Cleopatra: No, not really. I admire men who don't love women.
- Marc Antony: What do you mean by that?
- Cleopatra: Oh, I don't know. Women should be but toys for the great. It becomes them both.
- Cleopatra: So Rome would forgive and take you back? And all they demand is for us to part. Why don't they ask the sun to fall right out of the sky?
- Cleopatra: [last line, to Charmion and Iras] Look well for love. Look well. And not finding it, give nothing. But if blessed with Cleopatra's fortune, give all. Now, go.
- Cleopatra: It seems strange to see you working. I've always pictured you either fighting or loving.
- Julius Caesar: Well, I have had some experience with fighting.
- Cleopatra: But none with loving, I suppose.
- Julius Caesar: Well, none with pretty little queens.
- Cleopatra: I had to walk miles across the desert to the sea... to find the fishing boat that brought me to you. But just seeing you is magic, immortal Caesar.
- Julius Caesar: That's quite a speech. Your tongue is no longer bewitched by Caesar, eh?
- Cleopatra: No. It's my heart now.
- Marc Antony: Where are my men?
- Cleopatra: Oh. Oh, Carmion, where are Romans who came here today, do you know?
- Charmion: They're sleeping, my Queen.
- Marc Antony: Sleeping? What for?
- Charmion: They are - well, I should say they are a little tired.
- Marc Antony: You mean a little drunk!
- Cleopatra: No. Awfully drunk.
- Marc Antony: I hope that you know that - I know that you want me to do this.
- Cleopatra: Dear Antony, I hope you think I know that you know I know.
- Marc Antony: I should want to go out and get drunk with a lot of men. Or, find another woman.
- Cleopatra: Well, why don't you?
- Marc Antony: Because you are another woman. New. Always new. Completely new.
- Cleopatra: Come to my chambers and dine. We'll make such plans.
- Julius Caesar: Are your plans for India or me?
- Cleopatra: Both! Shouldn't a Queen choose as her confident, a King?
- Julius Caesar: Shhh! The word King is not well liked in Rome.
- Cleopatra: Caesar takes what he wants.
- Cleopatra: If I implored you to marry me, you wouldn't?
- Julius Caesar: I'd have to ask my wife in Rome.
- Cleopatra: [laughs] Oh, as if you care about that. Divorce her. Together we could conquer the world!
- Cleopatra: Let's not talk any more.
- Julius Caesar: I picked a flower in Britain once, the color of your eyes.