Macbeth Quotes

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“A world in which the choices we make do not finally matter, because our wills are already fixed beneath the weight of a crushing determinism, is not a human world.” (Macbeth Quotes)
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“But tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the Instruments of Darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Come what come may, time and the hour run through the roughest day.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Had I but died an hour before this chance
I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant
There’s nothing serious in mortality.
All is but toys, renown and grace is dead,
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

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

“I go and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“I have almost forgotten the taste of fears: The time has been, my senses would have cooled to hear a night-shriek; and my fell of hair would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir as life were isn’t: I have supt full with horrors; Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, cannot once start me.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well
It were done quickly: if the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
With his surcease success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We’ld jump the life to come. But in these cases
We still have judgment here; that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips. He’s here in double trust;
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself. Besides, this Duncan
Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his virtues
Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
The deep damnation of his taking-off;
And pity, like a naked new-born babe,
Striding the blast, or heaven’s cherubim, horsed
Upon the sightless couriers of the air,
Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye,
That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which overleaps itself
And falls on the other.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak, then, to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favors nor your hate.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Innocent sleep. Sleep that soothes away all our worries. Sleep that puts each day to rest. Sleep that relieves the weary laborer and heals hurt minds. Sleep, the main course in life’s feast, and the most nourishing.” (Macbeth Quotes)
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under it.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Macbeth is a play that points to the advent, much like the turbulent last century of the Middle Ages, of a modern age gradually deracinated from its Christian grounding and increasingly enamored of a neopagan notion of virtue, of potentially infinite human achievement severed from metaphysical considerations.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep, – the innocent sleep;
Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man
That function is smothered in surmise,
And nothing is but what is not.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Stars hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“The implacable logic of retribution will prove as appalling as the crime itself, consisting of the soul’s slow agonizing descent into a state of such loneliness and despair as to be finally indistinguishable from Hell.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

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

“There’s nothing serious in mortality;
All is but toys; renown, and grace, is dead;
The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what’s done is done.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Thrice to thine and thrice to mine and thrice again, to make up nine.
Peace! The charm’s wound up.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold. Thou hast no speculation in those eyes Which thou dost glare with!”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Tis safter to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“What’s done cannot be undone.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“When I burned in desire to question them further, they made themselves air, into which they vanished.” (Macbeth Quotes)
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“When shall we three meet again, in thunder, lightning, or in rain?”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly ‘s done, when the battle ‘s lost and won”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make love known?”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.”
William Shakespeare
Macbeth