Shakespeare Quotes Quotations - Coriolanus

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He's a very dog to the commonalty.
Coriolanus, 1. 1

What's the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,
Make yourself scabs?
Coriolanus, 1. 1

He that depends
Upon your favors swims with fins of lead,
And hews down oaks with rushes.
Coriolanus, 1. 1

Bid them wash their faces,
And keep their teeth clean.
Coriolanus, 2. 1

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.
Coriolanus, 2. 1

Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you
His absolute "shall"?
Coriolanus, 3. 1

Enough, with over-measure.
Coriolanus, 3. 1

What is the city but the people?
Coriolanus, 3. 1

You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate
As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize
As the dead carcasses of unburied men
That do corrupt my air, - I banish you.
Coriolanus, 3. 3

Despising,
For you, the city, thus I turn my back:
There is a world elsewhere.
Coriolanus, 4. 1

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William Shakespeare - English Dramatist and Poet. Born 1564. Died 1616.