Rex Harrison
(as Julius Caesar)
Cleopatra:
Catullus doesn't approve of you. Why haven't you had him killed?
Julius Caesar: Because *I* approve of *him.*
Julius Caesar: Because *I* approve of *him.*
Elizabeth Taylor
(as Cleopatra)
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)
Elizabeth Taylor
(as Cleopatra)
Hume Cronyn
(as Sosigenes)
Elizabeth Taylor
(as Cleopatra)
Rex Harrison
(as Julius Caesar)
Agrippa:
Nothing bores me so much as an intellectual!
Julius Caesar: Makes a better admiral of you, Agrippa.
Julius Caesar: Makes a better admiral of you, Agrippa.
Rex Harrison
(as Julius Caesar)
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)
Julius Caesar:
[speaking of the Grand Eunuch] ... a position not acquired without some, shall we say, sacrifices?
Elizabeth Taylor
(as Cleopatra)
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?
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?
