Shakespeare's Macbeth Quotes

Shakespeare's Macbeth Quotes & Sayings

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Turn hell-hound, turn. — William Shakespeare

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

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

Too nice, and yet too true! — William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Present fears are less than horrible imaginings. — William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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