Macbeth Theme Quotes:

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

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Angel, Stills, Macbeth Conflict, Macbeth Play, Macbeth Theme

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

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

source: William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.1043, Modern Library

topic: Life, Rain, Play, Thunder And Lightning, Macbeth Key

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

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

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Halloween, Memorable, Play, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween

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

My way of life Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Fall, Yellow, Decay, Sears, Yellow Leaves

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

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

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

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! 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

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

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

- William Shakespeare

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

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

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

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

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

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

- William Shakespeare

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

There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

- William Shakespeare

topic: Fake People, Art, Science, Macbeth Conflict, 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

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

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

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence

- William Shakespeare

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

topic: Truth, Winning, Darkness, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Play

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

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

Out, damned spot! out, I say!

- William Shakespeare

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

As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).

- William Shakespeare

source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 22

topic: Heart, Troops, Looks, Nature Of Evil, Macbeth Play

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

I have lived long enough. My way of life is to fall into the sere, the yellow leaf, and that which should accompany old age, as honor, love, obedience, troops of friends I must not look to have.

- William Shakespeare

source: William Shakespeare “Macbeth”, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Time, Fall, Yellow, Accompany, Yellow Leaves