Spiritual strength Quote by Alexander Solschenizyn

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

— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“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

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

Hamlet is to Macbeth somewhat as the Ghost is to the Witches. Revenge, or ambition, in its inception may have a lofty, even a…

— Harold Clarke Goddard

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

Macbeth is contending with the realities of this world, Hamlet with those of the next.

— Jones Very

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

— Naseeruddin Shah

[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

“Too bad it was buried before Shakespeare,” Darren continues. “This stage never saw the likes of Romeo or Macbeth.” I whirl around to face…

— Kristin Rae

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

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 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