#coriolanus quote

[thehumming6ird]

‘Down, ladies; let us shame him with our knees. To his surname Coriolanus ’longs more pride than pity to our prayers. Down: an end; this is the last: so we will home to Rome, and die among our neighbours. Nay, behold’s: this boy, that cannot tell what he would have but kneels and holds up bands for fellowship, does reason our petition with more strength than thou hast to deny it.’

                              Coriolanus, Act V Scene III

[meowdejavu]

I say unto you, what he hath done famously he did it to that end: though soft-conscienced men can be content to say it was for his country, he did it to please his mother, and to be partly proud: which he is, even to the altitude of his virtue.

[alwaysiambic]

Would you have me False to my nature? Rather say I play The man I am.

Coriolanus (3.2.16-18)

Coriolanus

[alwaysiambic]

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 (5.6.132-135)

Coriolanus