Coriolanus Quote Identification Quiz

“Would you have me false to my nature? Rather say I play the man I am.”

“There was a time when all the body’s members rebelled against the belly.”

“Even so as one in suffering all, that suffers nothing.”

“He’s a lamb indeed, that baes like a bear.”

“When blows have made me stay, I fled from words.”

“What's the matter, you dissentious rogues, that rubbing the poor itch of your opinion, make yourselves scabs?”

“His nature is not of steel, but of flint.”

“He is a kind of nothing, titleless.”

“Anger’s my meat; I sup upon myself.”

“Let me o'erleap that custom; for I cannot put on the gown, stand naked, and entreat them for my wounds.”

“I banish you; and here remain with your uncertainty!”

“My gracious silence, hail!”

“You are too absolute; though therein you can never be too noble.”

“He is their Hercules, and their god of war.”

“If my son were my husband, I should freelier rejoice in that absence wherein he won honor than in the embracements of his bed.”

“He bears himself more proudlier, even to my person.”

“You shall have wars you shall pay dearly for.”

“He is their god; he leads them like a thing made by some other deity than nature.”

“You have made good work, you and your apron men.”

“O mother, mother! What have you done?”

“His nature is too noble for the world.”

“When he speaks not like a citizen, you cry out ‘against the noble Senate.’”

“If you could but change your mind, you’d lose your nobility.”

“The people are the city.”

“You common cry of curs, whose breath I hate.”

“I am constant as the Northern Star.”

“Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.”

“He that depends upon your favors swims with fins of lead.”

“Mine own desert, I would not seek for my reward.”

“He has deserved worthily of his country.”