Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra Quotes

“I came, I saw, I conquered”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“Charlie had discovered that most men tended to assume they were smarter than women anyhow.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“It has forever been preferable to attribute a woman’s success to her beauty rather than to her brains. —STACY SCHIFF,”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“It’s to get it for the United States…” Before Charlie could protest, he raised his voice and continued, “… who will not abuse its use,”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“Ptolemy the Eighth, actually married his own daughter, which made his original wife—who he was still married to—his own mother-in-law. Which must have made Mother’s Day really confusing.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“What does this Oompa-Loompa snake mean?”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“Ptolemy the Eighth, actually married his own daughter,”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“her grandparents were brother and sister.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“Cleopatra’s parents were cousins”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“Cleopatra stood at one of the most dangerous intersections in history: that of women and power. —STACY SCHIFF, “Rehabilitating Cleopatra”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“I know. But the world will be safer that way. The only way to prevent anyone else from having Pandora is to kill Charlie Thorne.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“Where you find one, you will find all,”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“The latrine had been so well constructed that much of it was still standing, as opposed to the temples, which lay in ruins. Semel wondered if that said something about the priorities of humanity.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“Caesar finally got back to Rome in 46 BC, having defeated most of the Western world, and he decided to throw himself the biggest party ever. He had a huge parade, he changed the calendar, he staged a fight where gladiators killed four hundred lions, and he flooded one of the chariot courses to stage a naval battle. He even had two armies of captured soldiers fight to the death for entertainment. Four thousand people were killed. That means ten times more people died at Caesar’s party than at the Battle of Yorktown at the end of the American Revolution. Ancient Rome was a crazy place.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“Cleopatra made Rome feel uncouth, insecure, and poor. —STACY SCHIFF, Cleopatra: A Life”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“Learn a lesson from this,” she told them in Greek. “Always wear a helmet.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“We’ll”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“In time we hate that which we often fear. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“Egypt, thou knew’st too well, My heart was to thy rudder tied by the strings. —WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“It has forever been preferable to attribute a woman’s success to her beauty rather than to her brains. —STACY SCHIFF, “Rehabilitating Cleopatra”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“fleeing along the Roman Forum in a chariot, which probably hadn’t been done in at least 1,500 years.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“unaware of her age”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“ten times more people died at Caesar’s party than at the Battle of Yorktown at the end of the American Revolution”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“the Greek name she had given for the image of the snake was an outright lie. In fact, she hadn’t even spoken in Greek. She had spoken in Mandarin Chinese, which she knew both Dante and Milana understood.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“It’s an ancient symbol. The Egyptians called it ‘Ouroboros,’ while the Greeks called it ‘Zhunbei zhandou.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“He flew the black one instead of the white one. When Aegeus saw it, he was so upset, he threw himself into the ocean and drowned.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“Now the Mukhabarat, the Mossad, and the CIA were on her case”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“This is the Mukhabarat. We know you are Mossad. You are in violation of Egyptian law by operating within the borders of this country without permission.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“I’ll bet. Cleopatra had a real Isis thing going.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra

“since you only have a few hours left as director, I’m afraid that information is classified.”
― Stuart Gibbs, Charlie Thorne and the Curse of Cleopatra