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Coriolanus

If you have writ your annals true, ’t is there That, like an eagle in a dove-cote, I Flutter’d your Volscians in Corioli: Alone I did it! Boy!Coriolanus, scene vi

— Coriolanus alone

The noble sister of Publicola, The moon of Rome; chaste as the icicle, Thats curded by the frost from purest snow, And hangs on Dians temple: – dear Valeria!Coriolanus, scene iii

— Coriolanus moon

Ill never Be such a gosling to obey instinct; but stand, As if a man were author of himself, And knew no other kin.Coriolanus, scene iii

— Coriolanus self

I think hell be to Rome As is the osprey to the fish, who takes it By sovereignty of nature.Aufidius, Scene vii

— Coriolanus nature

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

— Coriolanus war

Aufidius: What is thy name? Coriolanus: A name unmusical to the Volscians’ ears, And harsh in sound to thine.Scene v

— Coriolanus music

If it be honour in your wars to seem The same you are not, which, for your best ends, You adopt your policy how is it less or worse, That it shall hold companionship in peace With honour, as in war, since that to both It stands in like request?Voulmnia, scene ii

— Coriolanus war

His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for’s power to thunder.Menenius, scene i

— Coriolanus nature

I thank you for your voices, — thank you, — Your most sweet voices.Third Citizen, quoting Coriolanus, scene iii

— Coriolanus sweet

God-den to your worships. More of your conversation would infect my brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly plebeians.Menenius, scene i

— Coriolanus god

If any think brave death outweighs bad life, and that his countrys dearer than himself; let him alone, or so many so minded, wave thus, to express his disposition,Marcius, scene vi

— Coriolanus life

O world, thy slippery turns! Friends now fast sworn, Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart, Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise Are still together, who twin, as t were, in love Unseparable, shall within this hour, On a dissension of a doit, break out To bitterest enmity: so, fellest foes, Whose passions and whose plots have broke their sleep To take the one the other, by some chance, Some trick not worth an egg, shall grow dear friends And interjoin their issues. So with me: — My birthplace hate I, and my loves upon This enemy town. — Ill enter: if he slay me, He does fair justice; if he give me way, Ill do his country service.Coriolanus, scene iv

— Coriolanus love

But now tis odds beyond arithmetic; And manhood is calld foolery, when it stands Against a falling fabric.Cominius, scene i

— Coriolanus man

Faith, there have been many great men that have flatterd the people, who neer loved them.Second Officer, scene ii

— Coriolanus love

Had I a dozen sons, — each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, — I had rather had eleven die nobly for their country, than one voluptuously surfeit out of action.Volumnia, scene iii

— Coriolanus love

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