Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Coriolanus.
Power Quotes
FIRST CITIZENWe are accounted poor citizens, the patricians good.
What authority surfeits on would relieve us. If they
would yield us but the superfluitywhile it were
wholesome, we might guess they...
Family Quotes
FIRST CITIZENI 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 mothe...
Language and Communication Quotes
AllNo more talking on 't; let it be done. Away, away! (1.1.12)
Art and Culture (and Politics) Quotes
MENENIUSNote me this, good friend;Your most grave belly was deliberate,Not rash like his accusers, and thus answered: (1.1.134-136)
Warfare Quotes
SECOND CITIZENWould you proceed especially against Caius Martius?ALLAgainst him first. He's a very dog to the commonalty.SECOND CITIZENConsider you what services he has done for his country? (1.1.2...
Gender Quotes
VOLUMNIATo a cruel war I sent him, from whence he returned, his brows bound with oak. I tell thee, daughter, I sprang not more in joy at first hearing he was a man-child than no...
Pride Quotes
SECOND CITIZENWould you proceed especially against Caius Martius?FIRST CITIZENAgainst him first. He's a very dog to the commonalty.SECOND CITIZENConsider you what services he has done for his count...