Macbeth Essay Quotes:

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Stars, Halloween, Light, Darkness To Light, Light And Dark

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]

topic: Kindness, Play, Lady Macbeth, Nature Of Evil, Macbeth Conflict

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

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Kings, Lady Macbeth, Crowns, Macbeth Conflict, Macbeth Essay

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Memorable, Heart, Faces, Deceptive, False Appearances

I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 136

topic: Blood, Lady Macbeth, Guilt, Guilty Conscience, Darkness In Macbeth

A little water clears us of this deed.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 68

topic: Water, Lady Macbeth, Deeds, Neptune, World Water Day

Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe (1723). “The works of Shakespear: In six volumes”, p.517

topic: Fog, Air, Hovering, Darkness In Macbeth, Thunder And Lightning

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

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Fall, Ambition, Lady Macbeth, Blind Ambition, Macbeth Conflict

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

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61

topic: Ocean, Blood, Hands, Ocean Water, Darkness In Macbeth

Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [63]

topic: Flower, Advice, Lady Macbeth, Serpent, Macbeth Conflict

My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.30, 1st World Publishing

topic: Heart, Hands, Color, Darkness In Macbeth, Neptune

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [55]

topic: Hands, Lady Macbeth, Guilt, Guilty Conscience, Little Hands

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

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Return, Taught, Important Macbeth, Macbeth Essay, Macbeth Key

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

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 46

topic: Courage, Peace, Men, Beth, Dare To Be Great

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

topic: Inspirational, Life, Success, Meaningless Life, Most Memorable

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 38

topic: Important Macbeth, Foul, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Essay, Macbeth Key

The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 123

topic: Sad, Truth, Darkness, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Conflict

Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

topic: Time, Futility Of Life, Lady Macbeth, Darkness In Macbeth, Meaninglessness

Out, damned spot! out, I say!

- William Shakespeare

topic: Memorable, Guilt, Spots, Darkness In Macbeth, Motifs

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

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

topic: Men, Blood, Hands, Sleepwalking, Macbeth Essay

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

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Life, Encouraging, Courage, Screw You, Macbeth Conflict

It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Life, Sound, Idiot, Most Memorable, Metaphors Of Life

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 44

topic: Halloween, Wicked, Thumbs, Wicked Ways, Wicked Witch

Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 4, l. 7

topic: Death, Leaving, Tragedy, Macbeth Essay, Macbeth Play

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

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

topic: Inspirational, Life, Death, Brief Life, Darkness In Macbeth

I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: People, Lady Macbeth, Golden, Macbeth Essay, Important Macbeth