You might think you can tell the biting sarcasm of Menenius from the cold arrogance of Martius, but this Coriolanus Quotes Quiz will put your ear for dialogue to the test. There are many lines which are remarkable for their contempt for the common people. Identify the speaker to demonstrate your familiarity with the passage.
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Coriolanus Quotes Quiz Questions
- “What's the matter, you dissentious rogues, that rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, make yourselves scabs?”
- “There was a time when all the body’s members rebelled against the belly.”
- “He that depends upon your favors swims with fins of lead.”
- “Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.”
- “When he speaks not like a citizen, you cry out ‘against the noble Senate.’”
- “My gracious silence, hail!”
- “If my son were my husband, I should freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he won honor than in the embracements of his bed.”
- “Anger’s my meat; I sup upon myself.”
- “You common cry of curs, whose breath I hate.”
- “When blows have made me stay, I fled from words.”
- “He is their god; he leads them like a thing made by some other deity than nature.”
- “I am constant as the Northern Star.”
- “He’s a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear.”
- “You shall have wars you shall pay dearly for.”
- “The people are the city.”
- “His nature is too noble for the world.”
- “O mother, mother! What have you done?”
- “He is a kind of nothing, titleless.”
- “If you could but change your mind, you’d lose your nobility.”
- “You have made good work, you and your apron men.”
- “You are too absolute; though therein you can never be too noble.”
- “He has deserved worthily of his country.”
- “His nature is not of steel, but of flint.”
- “I banish you; and here remain with your uncertainty!”
- “Would you have me false to my nature? Rather say I play the man I am.”
- “He is their Hercules, and their god of war.”
- “He bears himself more proudlier, even to my person.”
- “Mine own desert, I would not seek for my reward.”
- “Even so as one in suffering all, that suffers nothing.”
- “Let me o'erleap that custom; for I cannot put on the gown, stand naked, and entreat them for my wounds.”