Shakespeare Quotes About Politics and Rebellion

    27 quotes across 7 plays.

    What is the city but the people?

    Sicinius·Coriolanus·Act 3, Scene 1

    The beast With many heads butts me away.

    Coriolanus·Coriolanus·Act 4, Scene 1

    Nature teaches beasts to know their friends.

    Sicinius·Coriolanus·Act 2, Scene 1

    You souls of geese, That bear the shapes of men, how have you run From slaves that apes would beat!

    Coriolanus·Coriolanus·Act 1, Scene 4

    You common cry of curs! whose breath I hate As reek o' the rotten fens,

    Coriolanus·Coriolanus·Act 3, Scene 3

    I shall lack voice: the deeds of Coriolanus Should not be utter'd feebly.

    Cominius·Coriolanus·Act 2, Scene 2

    Instinct is a great matter; I was now a coward on instinct.

    Falstaff·Henry IV, Part 1·Act 2, Scene 4

    Lord, Lord, how this world is given to lying!

    Falstaff·Henry IV, Part 1·Act 5, Scene 4

    Give you a reason on compulsion! If reasons were as plentiful as blackberries, I would give no man a reason upon compulsion, I.

    Falstaff·Henry IV, Part 1·Act 2, Scene 4

    Hung be the heavens with black, yield day to night!

    Duke of Bedford·Henry VI, Part 1·Act 1, Scene 1

    Unbidden guests Are often welcomest when they are gone.

    Salisbury·Henry VI, Part 1·Act 2, Scene 2

    Of all base passions, fear is most accursed.

    Joan La Pucelle·Henry VI, Part 1·Act 5, Scene 2

    Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

    York·Henry VI, Part 2·Act 3, Scene 1

    Now 'tis the spring, and weeds are shallow-rooted; Suffer them now, and they'll o'ergrow the garden And choke the herbs for want of husbandry.

    Queen Margaret·Henry VI, Part 2·Act 3, Scene 1

    The commons, like an angry hive of bees That want their leader, scatter up and down And care not who they sting in their revenge.

    Warwick·Henry VI, Part 2·Act 3, Scene 2

    The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers.

    Dick the Butcher·Henry VI, Part 2·Act 4, Scene 2

    Small things make base men proud.

    Captain·Henry VI, Part 2·Act 4, Scene 1

    What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted! Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just, And he but naked, though locked up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted.

    King Henry VI·Henry VI, Part 2·Act 3, Scene 2

    Not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

    Brutus·Julius Caesar·Act 3, Scene 2

    O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, / And men have lost their reason.

    Mark Antony·Julius Caesar·Act 3, Scene 2

    Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears;

    Mark Antony·Julius Caesar·Act 3, Scene 2

    Sweet, sweet, sweet poison for the age's tooth.

    Bastard·King John·Act 1, Scene 1

    Mad world! mad kings! mad composition!

    Bastard·King John·Act 2, Scene 1

    How green you are and fresh in this old world!

    Cardinal Pandulph·King John·Act 3, Scene 4

    Take but degree away, untune that string, And, hark, what discord follows!

    Ulysses·Troilus and Cressida·Act 1, Scene 3

    Time hath, my lord, a wallet at his back, Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,

    Ulysses·Troilus and Cressida·Act 3, Scene 3

    One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

    Ulysses·Troilus and Cressida·Act 3, Scene 3
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