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last Pharaoh of ancient Egypt; beautiful and charismatic queen; mistress of Julius Caesar and later of Mark Antony; killed herself to avoid capture by Octavian (69-30 BC)

Philosopher Blaise Pascal wrote that had Cleopatra been less beautiful, the whole world would have changed.

You left out marrying Cleopatra.
Robert A. Heinlein -- Starship Troopers
Elizabeth Taylor in Cleopatra dramatic?
Khaled Hosseini -- And The Mountains Echoed
Cleopatra married her brother.
Cassandra Clare -- City of Lost Souls
What does your Shakespeare say of Cleopatra?
James Hilton -- Lost Horizon
Sally, who taught you to paint your eyes like Cleopatra?
Sandra Cisneros -- The House on Mango Street
She lays close to the Endymion, between her and the Cleopatra, just to the eastward of the sheer hulk.
Jane Austen -- Mansfield Park
The detractors asserted that the movie was an example of Western propaganda that sought toerase the fact that Cleopatra was an African woman.
Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
Who suggested that Cleopatra smuggle herself in a carpet?
Henry H. Neff -- The Fiend And The Forge
Here's the fool, here's the villain, here in a car comes Cleopatra, burning on her barge.
Virginia Woolf -- The Waves
Antony and Cleopatra WE FOUND Thea's house ready.
Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
Professor Nolan introduced Deino, saying that she'd finished an amazing eleventh overall, and then Deino began Cleopatra's death scene monologue.
P.C. Cast & Kristin Cast -- Betrayed
We grow a fruit here called the Cleopatra tangerine, and we sell it to citrus packers and juice companies.
Edward Bloor -- Tangerine
Her bangs stood out from her forehead in a Cleopatra look.
Jill McCorkle -- Ferris Beach
"Cleopatra," Conseil shot back.
Jules Verne -- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
Felicity straightens like Cleopatra's Needle.
Libba Bray -- A Great and Terrible Beauty
Just get her here, in Cleopatra's carpet, if you have to!
Robert Ludlum -- The Bourne Supremacy
That boy's business of the intoxication of language—Antony and Cleopatra—had shrivelled utterly.
Virginia Woolf -- Mrs. Dalloway
What was Shakespeare's state of mind, for instance, when he wrote LEAR and ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA?
Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
I should not be surprised to see Cleopatra walking among us.
Libba Bray -- Sweet Far Thing

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