Macbeth Motif Quotes:

A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching!

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare (2015). “Macbeth: Third Series”, p.271, Bloomsbury Publishing

topic: Sleep, Benefits, Macbeth Motif, Macbeth Sleep

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

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

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Character, Hands, Play, Countrymen, Darkness In Macbeth

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

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Blood, Important Macbeth, Nature Of Evil, Macbeth Conflict, Macbeth Key

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

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

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

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

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 141

topic: Sleep, Insomnia, Macbeth Theme, Lack Of Sleep, Sleeplessness

Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravell'd sleeve 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

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 36

topic: Hurt, Sleep, Insomnia, No Sleep, Sleeplessness

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

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

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

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

- William Shakespeare

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

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

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

topic: Dream, Fear, Sleep, Macbeth Motif, Macbeth Sleep

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

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

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

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

Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Time, Hands, Two, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Key

Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Shadow, Candle, Walking, Brief Life, Darkness In Macbeth

Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Art, Brain, Mind, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Conflict

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

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

There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 4

topic: Heaven, Important Macbeth, Macbeth Sleep, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Motif

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

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

topic: Lying, Anxiety, Mind, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Motif

Out, damned spot! out, I say!

- William Shakespeare

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