WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Wed, 24 Jun 2026 23:03:29 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg maverick – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Shakespeare, William -- Coriolanus, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 5ff (2.2.5-15) (c. 1608) https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/57343/ https://wist.info/shakespeare-william/57343/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2022 18:00:44 +0000 Dave https://wist.info/?p=57343 FIRST OFFICER: That’s a brave fellow, but he’s vengeance proud and loves not the common people.

SECOND OFFICER: ’Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne’er loved them; and there be many that they have loved they know not wherefore; so that, if they love they know not why, they hate upon no better a ground. Therefore, for Coriolanus neither to care whether they love or hate him manifests the true knowledge he has in their disposition and, out of his noble carelessness, lets them plainly see ’t.


William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist and poet
Coriolanus, Act 2, sc. 2, l. 5ff (2.2.5-15) (c. 1608)
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