Coriolanus
11 quotes
Biography
"Had I a dozen sons, — each in my love alike, and none less dear than thine and my good Marcius, — I had rather had eleven die nobly for their country, than one voluptuously surfeit out of action."
"If any think brave death outweighs bad life, and that his country's dearer than himself; let him alone, or so many so minded, wave thus, to express his disposition,"
"Make you a sword of me?"
"Nature teaches beasts to know their friends."
"One that loves a cup of hot wine with not a drop of allaying Tiber in ’t."
"God-den to your worships. More of your conversation would infect my brain, being the herdsmen of the beastly plebeians."
"Faith, there have been many great men that have flatter'd the people, who ne'er loved them."
"Enough, with over-measure."
"What is the city but the people?"
"Action is eloquence."
"Let me have war, say I; it exceeds peace as far as day does night: it's spritely waking, audible, and full of vent. Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy; mull'd, deaf, sleepy, insensible; a getter of more bastard children than war's a destroyer of men."