The Sign of the Cross (1932)
Claudette Colbert: Empress Poppaea
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Quotes
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[the Empress, soaking naked in a tub of ass's milk and calling to a friend]
Poppaea : Dacia, you're a butterfly with the sting of a wasp. Take off your clothes. Get in here and tell me all about it.
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Poppaea : Do you love this girl? Answer me!
Marcus Superbus, Prefect of Rome : Well, then I... I don't know.
Poppaea : That says you perhaps do. I could laugh with Rome about it if I didn't care so much. Marcus Superbus... caught at last by a Christian wanton.
Marcus Superbus, Prefect of Rome : You've no right to call her that.
Poppaea : Oh, very much in love.
Marcus Superbus, Prefect of Rome : Well, why not? It's not so impossible, so laughable. She's young, beautiful, virtuous. I find I'm sick of patrician women.
Poppaea : That's a direct enough insult.