Macbeth Play Quotes

• Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Ambition, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 16

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• If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Lady Macbeth, Crowns

  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Macbeth Act I, Scene 3, l. 143

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• Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Time, Past

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Hands, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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• Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Laughing, Apparitions

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 79

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• it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Alcohol, Desire

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Night, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 45

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• But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Science, Light

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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• To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Office, Hypocrisy

  William Shakespeare, A. R. Braunmuller (1997). “Macbeth”, p.90, Cambridge University Press

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• 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

  Men, Lady Macbeth, Murder

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 130

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• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

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  Night, Greatness, Born Leaders

  "Book of Humorous Quotations" by Connie Robertson, (p. 29), 1998.

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• But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.

  William Shakespeare

  Doubt, Confined, Bounds

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 24

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• Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Grace, Looks

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.229, Classic Books Company

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• Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

  William Shakespeare

  Return, Taught, Important Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 1

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• I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me.

  William Shakespeare

  Remembrance, Remember

  William Shakespeare (1843). “Macbeth”, p.59

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• I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

  William Shakespeare

  People, Lady Macbeth, Golden

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 31

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• 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

  Lying, Anxiety, Mind

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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• It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Important Macbeth, Nature Of Evil

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 122

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• 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

  Stars, Eye, Fire

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Macbeth: Third Series”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Done, Action

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 1

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• Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Memorable, Men

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• We fail!
  But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
  And we'll not fail.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Encouraging, Courage

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 54

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• Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing, For a charm of powerful trouble, Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.

  William Shakespeare

  Dog, Powerful, Halloween

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 14

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• Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
  Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!

  William Shakespeare

  Lions, Care, Proud

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Macbeth”, p.73, Palgrave Macmillan

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• Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

  William Shakespeare

  Confused, Confusion, Emotion

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [72]

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