Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air. — William Shakespeare
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
The treacheries of ambition never cease. — Ruben Dario
Give me my robe, put on my crown; I have Immortal longings in me. — William Shakespeare
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble! — William Shakespeare
The native hue of resolution is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; and enterprises of great pitch and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, and lose the name of action. — William Shakespeare
The villany you teach me I shall execute; and it shall go hard but I will better the instruction. — William Shakespeare
Short Macbeth Quotes
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing. — William Shakespeare
All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh! — William Shakespeare
My way of life
Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf. — William Shakespeare
Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it. — William Shakespeare
A little water clears us of this deed. — William Shakespeare
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day — William Shakespeare
My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white. — William Shakespeare
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. — William Shakespeare
When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors. — William Shakespeare
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? — William Shakespeare
Macbeth Image Quotes
Key Macbeth Quotes
Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. — William Shakespeare
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side — William Shakespeare
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. — William Shakespeare
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me. — William Shakespeare
Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky! — William Shakespeare
Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man. — William Shakespeare
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. — William Shakespeare
Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy. — William Shakespeare
The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. — William Shakespeare
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
Witches Macbeth Quotes
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
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
At the word witch, we imagine the horrible old crones from Macbeth. But the cruel trials witches suffered teach us the opposite. Many perished precisely because they were young and beautiful. — Andre Breton
I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the right elements - witches, kings and assassinations. — Sefi Atta
Far away, I could hear them lapping up my brains. Like Macbeth's witches, the three lithe cats surrounded my broken head, slurping up that thick soup inside. The tips of their rough tongues licked the soft folds of my mind. And with each lick my consciousness flickered like a flame and faded away. — Haruki Murakami
Macbeth Play Quotes
Many actors want to play Hamlet and Macbeth. Ever since I became an actor, from the very beginning I just wanted to play a Shetland pony. I cannot explain why — Dustin Hoffman
Better be with the dead,
Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
Than on the torture of the mind to lie
In restless ecstasy. — William Shakespeare
Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see — William Shakespeare
Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day. — William Shakespeare
Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters. — William Shakespeare
But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live. — William Shakespeare
Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain — William Shakespeare
O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee! — William Shakespeare
Lady Macbeth Quotes
Who can be wise, amazed, temperate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man. — William Shakespeare
Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil — William Shakespeare
That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; What hath quenched them hath given me fire. — William Shakespeare
Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? — William Shakespeare
I'd make a wonderful Lady Macbeth. I'll wear a pair of platform shoes or something. — Bette Midler
Maybe because Im a nice and sweet person in life, I like the darker roles. The really dark one is Lady Macbeth. — Anna Netrebko
I sometimes have these spells of compulsive truth. But as Lady Macbeth would say, "The fit is momentary." — Ken Kesey
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
To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue. — William Shakespeare
But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,
Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep
In the affliction of these terrible dreams
That shake us nightly. — William Shakespeare
A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching! — William Shakespeare
There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out. — William Shakespeare
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor. — William Shakespeare
Macbeth Sleep Quotes
The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to. — F. Scott Fitzgerald
O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head. — Thomas Hood
Still it cried ‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more,—Macbeth shall sleep no more! — William Shakespeare
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece of coal starts and finishes with its combustion, giving us light and heat. And that to me is Shakespeare. — Peter Brook
If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it. — Andrew Denton
There is nothing in the world so much like prayer as music is. ~William Shakespeare — William Shakespeare
I’m not so naive as to think that everybody always succeeds, right? I mean, half of Shakespeare‘s stories are tragedies – right? — Michael Saylor
One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare. — Judi Dench
England has two books, the Bible and Shakespeare. England made Shakespeare,but the Bible made England. — Victor Hugo
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of spirit. The characters of Turgenev are ghetto dwellers. Dickens characters are Nigerians. — Ben Okri
Now a Protestant confronting a Catholic ghost is exactly Shakespeare's way of grappling with what was not simply a general social problem but one lived out in his own life. — Stephen Greenblatt
The English people, a lot of them, would not be able to understand a word of spoken Shakespeare. There are people who do and I'm not denying they exist. But it's a far more philistine country than people think. — Colin Firth
I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets the weird sisters and hears their prophecy, he's like the man who hopes to win a million - a gamble for high stakes. — Roman Polanski
The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth] — Alan Moore
[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is Scottish. — James McAvoy
If Shakespeare had to go on an author tour to promote Romeo and Juliet, he never would have written Macbeth. — Joyce Brothers
At 18 I began painting steadily fulltime and at age 20 had my first New York show at the Macbeth Gallery. — Andrew Wyeth
My war brought me many things; let yours bring you as much. Life is not to be told, call it as loud as you like, it will not tell itself. No one will be much or little except in someone else's mind, so be careful of the minds you get into, and remember Lady Macbeth, who had her mind in her hand. We can't all be as safe as that. — Djuna Barnes
I once said to someone when I was playing Lady Macbeth and they said: "That's tricky, emotionally, what do you do about murdering your husband's cousin?" And there are, of course, things that aren't in your personal repertoire that you have to somehow understand by reading or watching other things and listening to other people talk about them. — Judi Dench
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