Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Titus Andronicus.
Revenge Quotes
SATURNINUS What, madam! be dishonour'd openly,And basely put it up without revenge?TAMORA [...]be won at last;Dissemble all your griefs and discontents:You are but newly planted in your throne;Lest...
Violence Quotes
A nobler man, a braver warrior,Lives not this day within the city walls:He by the senate is accit'd homeFrom weary wars against the barbarous Goths (1.1.1)
Language and Communication Quotes
Enter DEMETRIUS and CHIRON with LAVINIA, ravished; her hands cut off, and her tongue cut out (Stage Direction, Act 2, Scene 4)
Quotes
Noble patricians, patrons of my right,Defend the justice of my cause with arms,And, countrymen, my loving followers,Plead my successive title with your swords:I am his first-born son, that was the...
Family Quotes
Romans, friends, followers, favorers of my right,If ever Bassianus, Caesar's son,Were gracious in the eyes of royal Rome,Keep then this passage to the CapitolAnd suffer not dishonour to approachThe...
Race Quotes
A nobler man, a braver warrior,Lives not this day within the city walls:He by the senate is accit'd homeFrom weary wars against the barbarous Goths; (1.1.1)
Gender Quotes
Marcus Andronicus, so I do allyIn thy uprightness and integrity,And so I love and honour thee and thine,Thy noble brother Titus and his sons,And her to whom my thoughts are humbled all,Gracious Lav...
Sex Quotes
If Saturnine advance the queen of GothsShe will a handmaid be to his desires (1.1.3)