Coriolanus quotes

Question 1

1:1 ‘Chief enemy to

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the people’

Question 2

1:1 ‘Was ever a man so …

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proud’

Question 3

1:1 ‘he did it to please …

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his mother’

Question 4

1:1 ‘Worthy Menenius, one that hath …

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always loved the people’

Question 5

1:1 refers to plebeians as

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‘friends’

Question 6

1:1 ‘the senators of Rome are this good belly and you…

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the mutinous members’

Question 7

1:1 ‘Rome and her rats are …

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at the point of battle’

Question 8

1:1 Martius is really pleasant to the plebeians

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‘dogs’ ‘scabs’ fragments’

Question 9

1:1 ‘I sin in envying …

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his nobility’

Question 10

1:1 ‘He is a lion that ..

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I am proud to hunt’

Question 11

1:2: ‘tis sworn between us we shall ever strike…

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till one can do no more’

Question 12

1:3 ‘They set them down on two low stools…

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and sew’

Question 13

1:3 ‘had I a dozen sons I had…

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rather 11 die nobly for their country’

Question 14

1:4 ‘You shames of Rome! You heard of …

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boils and plagues’

Question 15

1:4 ‘He himself is alone to …

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answer all the city’

Question 16

1:5 ‘there is the man of my ..

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soul’s hate, Aufidius’

Question 17

1:6 ‘make you a sword …

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of me? ‘

Question 18

1:9 ‘when she does praise me …

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grieves me’

Question 19

1:9 ‘cannot make my heart consent to …

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take a bribe to pay my sword.’

Question 20

1:10 ‘We encounter as often as…

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we eat.’

Question 21

1:10 ‘he’s mine or…

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I am his’

Question 22

2:1 ‘your abilities are too infant-like for…

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doing much alone.’

Question 23

2:1 ‘I am known to be a …

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humorous patrician’

Question 24

2:1 ‘martius is worth …

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all your predecessors’

Question 25

2:1 ‘herdsmen of the …

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beastly plebeians.’

Question 26

2:1 ‘o he is wounded …

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I thank the Gods for’t!’

Question 27

2:1 ‘no more of this …

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it does offend my heart.’

Question 28

2:1 ‘Yon are three that Rome…

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should dote upon.’

Question 29

2:1 Menenius describes tribunes as

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‘old crab trees’

Question 30

2:1 ‘I have lived to see inherited …

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my very wishes.’

Question 31

2:1 ‘I had rather be a servant in my way than …

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sway with them in theirs.’

Question 32

2:2 ‘a brave fellow but he’s vengeance …

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proud and loves not the common people’

Question 33

2:2 ‘the people must have …

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their voices’

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2:2 ‘take you as your predecessors have, your honour …

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with your form’

Question 35

2:2 ‘It is a part that I shall …

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blush in acting’

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2:3 I will counterfeit the bewitchment of some …

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popular man’

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2:3 ‘fall in rage at their

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refusal’