Salomé: Quotes

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• "How beautiful is the Princess Salomé to-night!"

  The young Syrian · Read in context

• "Jokanaan, I am amorous of thy body!"

  Salomé · Read in context

• "Only in mirrors should one look, for mirrors do but show us masks."

  Herod · Read in context

• "Kings ought never to pledge their word."

  Herod · Read in context

• "Well I know that thou wouldst have loved me, and the mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death."

  Salomé · Read in context

• "Kill that woman!"

  Herod · Read in context