Macbeth motif Quotes by William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee…

— William Shakespeare

Out, damned spot! out, I say!

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

You lack the season of all natures, sleep.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer, Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep In…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

Better be with the dead, Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, Than on the torture of the mind…

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare