Conscience Quote by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Macbeth's self-justifications were feeble – and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb, too. The imagination and spiritual strength of…

— Alexander Solschenizyn

I read Macbeth as a secondary student in Nigeria and it was like an African play to me. It had all the right elements…

— Sefi Atta

“In The Gulag Archipelago, for example, Alexander Solzhenitsyn remarks that Shakespeare’s evildoers, Macbeth notably among them, stop short at a mere dozen corpses because…

— Theodore Dalrymple

'Macbeth,' I am ambivalent about. I don't like that play, in fact.

— Naseeruddin Shah

For me, what Macbeth is about is people who cannot face their fears and pain and instead of facing them and going beyond, they…

— Marion Cotillard

I see Macbeth as a young, open-faced warrior, who is gradually sucked into a whirpool of events because of his ambition. When he meets…

— Roman Polanski

In Macbeth a lady is restrained from the murder of a king by his resemblance of her father as he slept. Should not all…

— Benjamin Rush

I don't think of 'Macbeth' as the villain. I don't think of 'King Lear' as the villain. I don't think of 'Hamlet' as the…

— Damien Chazelle

[Macbeth] is historically set in a place depicted by Shakespeare as brutal and violent, incredibly superstitious, and that's something that I do believe is…

— James McAvoy

'Macbeth' is one of those books that demand all of your attention.

— Mannie Fresh

We just don't need any more 'Macbeth's in the world, however brilliant mine might turn out to be.

— John Tiffany

“I believe...that to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure more than an artistic success. Shakespeare would have done…

— Raymond Chandler