Coriolanus Quote

[last lines]Caius Martius Coriolanus: I am returned your soldier, no more infected with my country's love than when I parted hence, but still subsisting under your great command. We have made peace with no less honor to the Volscians than shame to the Romans.
Tullus Aufidius: Tell the traitor, in the highest degree, he hath abused your powers.
Caius Martius Coriolanus: Traitor? How now?
Tullus Aufidius: Aye, traitor, Martius.
Caius Martius Coriolanus: Martius?
Tullus Aufidius: Aye, Martius. Caius Martius. Dost thou think I'll grace thee with that robbery, thy stolen name Corioloanus? [to his soldiers]
Tullus Aufidius: Perfidiously he hath betrayed your business and given up, for certain drops of salt, your city, Rome. I say your city, for his wife and mother, breaking his oath and resolution like a twist of rotten silk. Never admitting counsel of the war, but at his nurse's tears, he whined and roared away your victory.
Caius Martius Coriolanus: Hear'st thou, Mars?
Tullus Aufidius: Name not the god, thou boy of tears.
Caius Martius Coriolanus: Measureless liar, thou has made my heart too great for what contains it. Boy? O slave. Cut me to pieces, Volsces! Men and lads, stain all your edges on me! Boy? If you have writ your annals true, 'tis there that, like an eagle in a dovecote, I fluttered your Volscians in Corioles. Alone I did it. Boy.
Tullus Aufidius: [to his soldiers]Let him die for it.

Movie: Coriolanus

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