Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.Sicinius
You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate, As reek o' the rotten fens, whose loves I prize, As the dead carcasses of unburied menThat do corrupt my air, I banish you.Coriolanus
Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself, And so shall starve with feeding.Coriolanus
What is the city but the people?Sicinius
I play the noble housewife with the time, To entertain it so merrily with a fool.Menenius
There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger.Cominius
Like a dull actor now, I have forgot my part, and I am out, Even to a full disgrace.Coriolanus
He would not answer to: forbad all names. He was a kind of nothing, titleless.Aufidius
You have made good work, you and your cry! Shall us to the Capitol.Brutus
There is differency between a grub and a butterfly; yet your butterfly was a grub.Coriolanus
I'll lean upon one crutch and fight with t’other. Ere stay behind this business.Coriolanus
I shall lack voice: the deeds of Coriolanus. Should not be utter'd feeblyMenenius
Pray be counsell'd: I have a heart as little apt as yours, But yet a brain that leads my use of anger To better vantage.Menenius
He's a disease that must be cut away.Sicinius
If you have writ your annals true, tis there, That, like an eagle in a dovecote, I Flutter'd your Volscians in Corioli: Alone I did it.Coriolanus
Thou art left marcius. A carbuncle entire, as big as thou art, Were not so rich a jewel.Tullus Aufidius
His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for’s power to thunder.Menenius
Best of my flesh, forgive my tyranny; but do not say for that 'forgive our Romans'.Volumnia
He loves your people, but tie him not to be their bedfellow.Volumnia
For in such business action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant more learned than the ears.Volumnia