What do you want, you wicked dogs? You neither like peace nor war;

Mortimer 2022-01-14 08:01:47

What I remember most clearly was Matthews's reprimand to those foolish people.

Whoever treats you warmly, he will also compliment the people he hates in his heart. What do you want, you wicked dogs? You neither like peace nor war; war will scare you, and peace will make you arrogant. If anyone trusts you, he will find that the lion he is looking for is nothing but a bunch of hares, and the fox he is looking for is no more than a bunch of geese; you are more unreliable than coal fire on ice or hail spots in the sun. Your virtue is to honor the criminal prisoner and curse the criminal officer who enforces the law. Whoever has made merits should be hated by you; your love is like the taste of a patient, and you only love food that is enough to aggravate his illness. If anyone trusts in your favor, it is equivalent to swimming with lead-made fins and cutting down oak trees with rushes. Damn it! Believe you? You have to change your heart every minute, and you will praise the people you hated just now and scold the people you praised just now. You are clamoring everywhere in the city, attacking the noble Senate, what is going on? If they hadn't helped the gods to restrain you and made you a little afraid, you would have eaten each other a long time ago. What is their purpose?

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  • Braulio 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    Why not make a costume movie? Alternate modern films are very inconsistent

  • Evalyn 2022-03-26 09:01:11

    The lines look so tiring!

Coriolanus quotes

  • Volumnia: Do as thou like! Thy valiantness was mine, thou suck'st it from me. But owe thy pride thyself!

  • Tullus Aufidius: What's thy name?

    Caius Martius Coriolanus: A name unmusical to the Volscians' ears, and harsh in sound to thine.

    Tullus Aufidius: Say... what's thy name? Thou has a grim appearance. What's thy name?

    Caius Martius Coriolanus: [taking a step forward] Know'st thou me yet?

    Tullus Aufidius: I know thee not. Thy name?

    Caius Martius Coriolanus: My name is Caius Martius, who hath done to thee particularly, and to all the Volsces, great hurt and mischief. Thereto witness my surname... Coriolanus. Only that name remains. The cruelty and envy of the people who have all forsook me, hath devoured the rest and suffered me by the voice of slaves, be whooped out of Rome. Now this extremity hath brought me to thy hearth. Not out of hope, mistake me not to save my life. For if I had feared death, of all men in the world I would have avoided thee. But, in mere spite, to be full quit of those my banishers, stand I before thee here. I will fight against my cankered country with the spleen of all the under fiends. But if thou dares not this, then I present my throat to thee and to thy ancient malice. Which not to cut would show thee but a fool, since I have ever followed thee with hate, and cannot live but to thy shame, unless it be to do thee service.