Quotation by Shakespeare

I saw her once
Hop forty paces through the public street;
And having lost her breath, she spoke, and panted,
That she did make defect perfection.
William Shakespeare (1564–1616), British dramatist, poet. Enobarbus, in Antony and Cleopatra, act 2, sc. 2, l. 228-31.

Cleopatra's charm in her less than queenly behavior.
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