Shakespeare Quote of the Day

Tag: Coriolanus

  • You Baby

    You Big Baby

    …Your abilities are too infant-like for doing much alone.

    –Coriolanus,
    Act II, Scene i

  • Teeth and Claws

    Teeth and Claws

    There is no more mercy
    in him than there is milk in a male tiger.

    –Coriolanus,
    Act V, Scene iv

  • March 9

    Look Beyond

    There is a world elsewhere.

    –Coriolanus,
    Act III Scene iii

  • Insecure

    Insecure

    And here remain with your uncertainty!
    Let every feeble rumour shake your hearts!
    Your enemies, with nodding of their plumes,
    Fan you into despair!

    –Coriolanus,
    Act  I, Scene ii

  • Night Crawler

    Night Crawler

    One that converses more
    with the buttock of the night
    than with the forehead of the morning.

    –Coriolanus,
    Act II, Scene i

  • January 17

    Talk Is Cheap

    Action is eloquence.

     -Coriolanus,
    Act III, Scene ii

  • Odious

    Odious

    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 men
    That do corrupt my air.

    –Coriolanus,
    Act III, Scene iii