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I pray you school yourself. [MacBeth, Act 1V, Scene 2] — William Shakespeare

Only now was it starting to make sense why Lady Macbeth could never scrub the blood off her hands, why it was still there after she washed it away. — Donna Tartt

What are you doing sister? / Killing swine. — William Shakespeare

Nought's had, all's spent, where our desire is got without content. — William Shakespeare

I use those medical gloves that fit very tightly and are disposable for all chopping - peppers, onions, garlic, etc. Very Lady Macbeth, I think. — Nora Ephron

Sometimes I wake up and think, 'I want to look like Sherlock Holmes today,' and other times I want to look like a witch from 'Macbeth.' — Edie Campbell

I'm either the witch or Lady Macbeth of English politics, but someone gotta wear the pants in England when others wearing kilts — Margaret Thatcher

The essence of Macbeth is seeing a great and intelligent man succumb to the forces of darkness. What gives the tragedy — William Shakespeare

I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself
And falls on the other. — William Shakespeare

Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side — William Shakespeare

The two sides of the equation are the same. We have a tautology. The definition is meaningless. — Norman Macbeth

Go, prick thy face and over-red thy fear,
Thou lily-livered boy. — William Shakespeare

And now about the cauldron sing
Like elves and fairies in a ring,
Enchanting all that you put in. — William Shakespeare

I've never ever read a script. I really must read Macbeth, because I was in it once. I got a lot of laughs in that, I can tell you. — Tom Baker

A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me. — Alan Cumming

My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten. — William Shakespeare

We are the only state that does not have a State Film Corporation there to support the commercial industry. — Ann Macbeth

The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures. Lady Macbeth — William Shakespeare

I'm much more likely to get lynched over 'The Killing' than 'Macbeth.' — David Hewson

I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something. — Bette Midler

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next. — Jones Very

Even if Lady Macbeth could have removed that damn spot, wouldn't her hands have been red from all of the scrubbing? — Jonathan Safran Foer

Performing a one-man Macbeth feels like the greatest challenge. — Alan Cumming

When you're a young man, Macbeth is a character part. When you're older, it's a straight part. — Laurence Olivier

Stars are the daisies that begem
The blue fields of the sky. — David Macbeth Moir

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him ... [from Macbeth] — Alan Moore

At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. — Andrew Wyeth

Video just accesses international information so much more readily. — Ann Macbeth

Unsex me here and fill me from crown to toe full of direst cruelty That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Macbeth — William Shakespeare

'Macbeth' is an amazing story. — Andy Serkis

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth — William Shakespeare

I'm the world's lightest sleeper. On a bad day, I can make Lady Macbeth look like a raging narcoleptic. — Jodi Taylor

You're like Lady Macbeth without the murder." "Thank you. You have no idea how much of a compliment that is to me. — John Corey Whaley

Any new producer starting up is to get investors' confidence. Investors are still very very wary of anything to do with the arts world. — Ann Macbeth

And nothing is, but what is not. — William Shakespeare

I couldn't be more proud to introduce Anne-Marie Duff, a phenomenal actress who is bursting on the world stage, to Broadway audiences as Lady Macbeth. — Jack O'Brien

If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. — Joyce Brothers

I always assumed I would leave drama school and do 'Lady Macbeth' and all sorts of serious things. It just didn't happen. — Olivia Colman

The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love. — William Shakespeare

It isn't difficult to leave King Lear or Macbeth, but once you have gone back to yourself, you want it to be the same self you have always been. — Paul Scofield

You lack the season of all natures, sleep. — William Shakespeare

Natural selection is almost always handled in general temps . This means that it has no explanatory power when specific problems arise. — Norman Macbeth

Although she far outranked Hamish, she had to wait patiently, because this was Lochdubh, where Hamish Macbeth was king. — M.C. Beaton

In the description of night in Macbeth, the beetle and the bat detract from the general idea of darkness - inspissated gloom. — Samuel Johnson

I see any production of any nature being good for the development of the whole industry. — Ann Macbeth

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be. — Max Beerbohm

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me. — William Shakespeare

Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor. — William Shakespeare

'Macbeth' was a very lucky play for me. — Ian McKellen

Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts. — William Shakespeare

Had he not resembled My father as he slept I had done't!
Macbeth — William Shakespeare

She came leaping towards me, like Lady Macbeth coming to get first-hand news from the guest-room. — P.G. Wodehouse

Look to the lilies how they grow! 'Twas thus the Saviour said, that we, Even in the simplest flowers that blow, God's ever-watchful care might see. — David Macbeth Moir

Too nice, and yet too true! — William Shakespeare

Don't wear green in your dressing room,' suggested Miss Spink.
'Or mention the Scottish play, added Miss Forcible. — Neil Gaiman

Build into each budget the cost of hiring and don't lump yourself with capital investment. — Ann Macbeth

Maybe because I'm a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth. — Anna Netrebko

He took the mess that was Macbeth and fixed it, and I wonder if he might, in some small way, be able to do the same for me. — Sarah Dessen

My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white. — William Shakespeare

Bleed, bleed, poor country!Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure;For goodness dares not check thee!His title is affear'd.Shakesp.Macbeth. — Samuel Johnson

There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. — William Shakespeare

The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. — William Shakespeare

Turn hell-hound, turn. — William Shakespeare

...we had bypassed Romeo and Juliet and gone straight to Macbeth. — Michael Brooks

I drink to the general joy o' the whole table. Macbeth — William Shakespeare

Macbeth was the first play I ever read. — Alan Cumming

How now! Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Lady Macbeth — William Shakespeare

Stand not upon the order of your going, But go at once."
Macbeth. Act III Sc. 4, Line 119 — Jess Waid

I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people. — William Shakespeare

Macbeth to Witches: What are these So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like th' inhabitants o' th' earth, And yet are on 't? — William Shakespeare

I've always wanted to play 'Lady Macbeth' and Strindberg's 'Miss Julie'. — Olivia D'Abo

The foxglove, with it's stately bells Of purple, shall adorn thy dells. — David Macbeth Moir

A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching! — William Shakespeare

I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is. — David Hewson

My first part in a play was one of the witches in 'Macbeth.' — Zendaya

The dichotomy between art and industry is totally dysfunctional in terms of film. — Ann Macbeth

Sleep knits up the raveled sleeve of care. — William Shakespeare

Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!
At least we'll die with harness on our back. — William Shakespeare

If it's worth doing, it's worth doing poorly. (friend who is a priest said regarding prayer) — Sybil MacBeth

Everybody needs a career manager."- Lady Macbeth — Robert Lynn Asprin

Look to the lilies how they grow! — David Macbeth Moir

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings. — William Shakespeare

Macbeth:
If we should fail?
Lady Macbeth:
We fail?
But screw your courage to the sticking place,
And we'll not fail. — William Shakespeare

When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors. — William Shakespeare

I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary." — Ken Kesey

I will have thee, as our rarer monsters are, painted upon a pole,and underwrit: Here you may see the tyrant, Macbeth — William Shakespeare

Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. — William Shakespeare

Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince. — Brand Blanshard

So fair and foul a day I have not seen. — William Shakespeare

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"
Macbeth — William Shakespeare

Why a should a dream be any less real than this table. Or Macbeth be less real than today's newspaper. — Jorge Luis Borges

But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' Stuck in my throat. — William Shakespeare

I was in a production of 'Macbeth.' — Richard C. Armitage

I want to play Eva Peron. I've already done a lot of Shakespeare, but I'd like to do Lady Macbeth. — Tamara Tunie

I can always do theater; I can do Ibsen, I can do Macbeth, I can do Chekhov, I can do Moliere, Othello, I can do Richard III. — Ving Rhames

What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that. — Stephen King

His silver skin laced with his golden blood. — William Shakespeare

I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more, is none — William Shakespeare

The British needlewoman follows blindly where the merchant leads. — Ann Macbeth

A great performance like Lady Macbeth may be forgotten. Writing endures. — Susan Strasberg