Coriolanus quotes Flashcards
1:1 ‘Chief enemy to
the people’
1:1 ‘Was ever a man so …
proud’
1:1 ‘he did it to please …
his mother’
1:1 ‘Worthy Menenius, one that hath …
always loved the people’
1:1 refers to plebeians as
‘friends’
1:1 ‘the senators of Rome are this good belly and you…
the mutinous members’
1:1 ‘Rome and her rats are …
at the point of battle’
1:1 Martius is really pleasant to the plebeians
‘dogs’ ‘scabs’ fragments’
1:1 ‘I sin in envying …
his nobility’
1:1 ‘He is a lion that ..
I am proud to hunt’
1:2: ‘tis sworn between us we shall ever strike…
till one can do no more’
1:3 ‘They set them down on two low stools…
and sew’
1:3 ‘had I a dozen sons I had…
rather 11 die nobly for their country’
1:4 ‘You shames of Rome! You heard of …
boils and plagues’
1:4 ‘He himself is alone to …
answer all the city’
1:5 ‘there is the man of my ..
soul’s hate, Aufidius’
1:6 ‘make you a sword …
of me? ‘
1:9 ‘when she does praise me …
grieves me’
1:9 ‘cannot make my heart consent to …
take a bribe to pay my sword.’
1:10 ‘We encounter as often as…
we eat.’
1:10 ‘he’s mine or…
I am his’
2:1 ‘your abilities are too infant-like for…
doing much alone.’
2:1 ‘I am known to be a …
humorous patrician’
2:1 ‘martius is worth …
all your predecessors’
2:1 ‘herdsmen of the …
beastly plebeians.’
2:1 ‘o he is wounded …
I thank the Gods for’t!’
2:1 ‘no more of this …
it does offend my heart.’
2:1 ‘Yon are three that Rome…
should dote upon.’
2:1 Menenius describes tribunes as
‘old crab trees’
2:1 ‘I have lived to see inherited …
my very wishes.’
2:1 ‘I had rather be a servant in my way than …
sway with them in theirs.’
2:2 ‘a brave fellow but he’s vengeance …
proud and loves not the common people’
2:2 ‘the people must have …
their voices’
2:2 ‘take you as your predecessors have, your honour …
with your form’
2:2 ‘It is a part that I shall …
blush in acting’
2:3 I will counterfeit the bewitchment of some …
popular man’
2:3 ‘fall in rage at their
refusal’
