Macbeth Shakespeare Quotes

#1. 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

#2. And nothing is, but what is not.

William Shakespeare

#3. If you think about Shakespeare, you remember Richard III and Macbeth before you remember Ferdinand, whose role is just to fall in love and be a bit of a wimp. I love the baddies. More important, though, is making the baddies somehow, weirdly, understood.

Mark Strong

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

Stephen King

#5. Everybody needs a career manager."- Lady Macbeth

Robert Lynn Asprin

#6. Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.

William Shakespeare

#7. The thing that is so singular and stunning about Macbeth - indeed, it strikes one straightaway - is that all the magic Shakespeare put into writing it manages so entirely to harrow and astonish the soul.

William Shakespeare

#8. Go, prick thy face and over-red thy fear,
Thou lily-livered boy.

William Shakespeare

#9. Be not lost So poorly in your thoughts.

William Shakespeare

#10. [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

#11. In The Gulag Archipelago, for example, Alexander Solzhenitsyn remarks that Shakespeare's evildoers, Macbeth notably among them, stop short at a mere dozen corpses because they have no ideology.

Theodore Dalrymple

#12. I drink to the general joy o' the whole table. Macbeth

William Shakespeare

#13. I think there is this huge hole in Shakespeare that you do not know why Macbeth is who he is.

David Hewson

#14. your son has paid the soldier's price: death. He only lived long enough to become a man, and as soon as he proved that he was a man by fighting like one, he died"
Macbeth
William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare

#15. Had Shakespeare listened to the news of Duncans death in a tavern or heard the knocking on his own bedroom door after he had finished the writing of Macbeth?

Graham Greene

#16. It must be remembered that the Iliad and Odyssey were composed as epic tales and not as historical texts. To use Shakespeare's Macbeth as a source for 11th-century Scottish politics would rather miss the point of the play, and the same is true of the Homeric epics.

Nic Fields

#17. The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.

William Shakespeare

#18. So fair and foul a day I have not seen.

William Shakespeare

#19. My dull brain was wrought with things forgotten.

William Shakespeare

#20. Turn hell-hound, turn.

William Shakespeare

#21. Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under't.

William Shakespeare

#22. Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.

Brand Blanshard

#23. I had great English teachers in high school who first piqued my interest in Shakespeare. Each year, we read a different play - 'Othello,' 'Julius Caesar,' 'Macbeth,' 'Hamlet' - and I was the nerd in class who would memorize soliloquies just for the fun of it.

Ian Doescher

#24. Historically, Macbeth is one of the greatest kings Scotland ever had. He was on the throne for 19 years, and he simply has this dreadful reputation because Shakespeare manipulated history for the benefit of James I, who was paying him to write the play to blacken Macbeth's name.

David Hewson

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

Tamara Tunie

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

William Shakespeare

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

Joyce Brothers

#28. If I could mimic the dynamic of any Shakespearean marriage, I'd choose to mimic the Macbeths - before the murder, ruthless ambition, and torturous descents into madness and death, that is.

Jillian Keenan

#29. And you know, I hate to admit this, but I don't always think in terms of Shakespeare. When I eat, I do. When I'm at a restaurant, I'll think, 'Hmm, what would Macbeth have ordered?'

Liev Schreiber

#30. Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble - and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare's evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn