Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Salomé.
Sex Quotes
SALOMÉ I will not stay. I cannot stay. Why does the Tetrarch look at me all the while with his mole's eyes under his shaking eyelids? It is strange that the husband of my mother looks at me like t...
Death Quotes
THE YOUNG SYRIAN How beautiful is the Princess Salomé to-night!THE PAGE OF HERODIAS Look at the moon. How strange the moon seems! She is like a woman rising from a tomb. She is like a dead woman....
Versions of Reality Quotes
FIRST SOLDIER The Jews worship a God that one cannot see.THE CAPPADOCIAN I cannot understand that.FIRST SOLDIER In fact, they only believe in things that one cannot see.THE CAPPADOCIAN That seems t...
Sin Quotes
SALOMÉ I will not stay. I cannot stay. Why does the Tetrarch look at me all the while with his mole's eyes under his shaking eyelids? It is strange that the husband of my mother looks at me like t...
Religion Quotes
SECOND SOLDIER The Jews. They are always like that. They are disputing about their religion.FIRST SOLDIER Why do they dispute about their religion?SECOND SOLDIER I cannot tell. They are always doin...
Transformation Quotes
THE VOICE OF JOKANAAN After me shall come another mightier than I. I am not worthy so much as to unloose the latchet of his shoes. When he cometh the solitary places shall be glad. They shall bloss...
Power Quotes
THE VOICE OF JOKANAAN After me shall come another mightier than I. I am not worthy so much as to unloose the latchet of his shoes. When he cometh the solitary places shall be glad. They shall bloss...
Fear Quotes
THE CAPPADOCIAN He was not afraid?SECOND SOLDIER Oh no! The Tetrarch sent him the ring.THE CAPPADOCIAN What ring?SECOND SOLDIER The death ring. So he was not afraid.THE CAPPADOCIAN Yet it is a terr...