Macbeth play Quotes by William Shakespeare

When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

— William Shakespeare

The patient must minister to himself

— William Shakespeare

Nothing in his life became him like leaving it.

— William Shakespeare

The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

— William Shakespeare

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

— William Shakespeare

I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.

— William Shakespeare

O horror! Horror! Horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

That but this blow Might be the be-all and the end-all here, But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, We'ld…

— William Shakespeare

Eye of newt, and toe of frog, Wool of bat, and tongue of dog, Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting, Lizard's leg, and…

— William Shakespeare

As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud…

— William Shakespeare

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the…

— William Shakespeare

Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that…

— 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

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can…

— William Shakespeare

. . . nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it; he died As one that had been studied in…

— 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

Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to…

— William Shakespeare

Out, damned spot! out, I say!

— William Shakespeare

Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

— William Shakespeare

What light through yonder window breaks?

— William Shakespeare

Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!

— William Shakespeare

But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.

— William Shakespeare

But, soft! what light through yonder window breaks? It is the east, and Juliet is the sun.

— William Shakespeare

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

— 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

Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.

— William Shakespeare

But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare