Coriolanus Quotes

He’s a very dog to the commonalty.

– William Shakespeare

What’s the matter, you dissentious rogues,
That, rubbing the poor itch of your opinion,
Make yourself scabs?

– William Shakespeare

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

– William Shakespeare

What is the city but the people?

– William Shakespeare

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

– William Shakespeare

O! a kiss
Long as my exile, sweet as my revenge!
Now, by the jealous queen of heaven, that kiss
I carried from thee, dear, and my true lip
Hath virgined it e’er since.

– William Shakespeare

O mother, mother!
What have you done? Behold, the heavens do ope,
The gods look down, and this unnatural scene
They laugh at.

– William Shakespeare

Chaste as the icicle
That’s curdied by the frost from purest snow
And hangs on Dian’s temple.

– William Shakespeare

If you have writ your annals true, ’tis there
That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I
Fluttered your Volscians in Corioli:
Alone I did it.

– William Shakespeare

Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night; it’s spritely, waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is very apoplexy, lethargy: mulled, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war’s a destroyer of men.

– William Shakespeare

The beast
With many heads butts me away.

– William Shakespeare

Enough, with over-measure.

– William Shakespeare

Hear you this Triton of the minnows? Mark you
His absolute ‘shall’?

– William Shakespeare

Like a dull actor now,
I have forgot my part, and I am out,
Even to a full disgrace.

– William Shakespeare