Concern Quote by Mary McCarthy

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

— Naseeruddin Shah

“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

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 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

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

Conscience doth make cowards of us all. William Shakespeare, Hamlet

— William Shakespear

“Conscience is just a polite word for cowardice. No civilised man regrets a pleasure.”

— Anonymous

“Conscience is the eye that watches an honest man, and the guide that keeps his actions even in secret. Hence, other men's views takes…

— Haruna Idowu

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“he had been filled with terror lest other eyes should look upon it. It had brought melancholy across his passions. Its mere memory had…

— Oscar Wilde

A man's moral conscience is the curse he had to accept from the gods in order to gain from them the right to dream.

— William Faulkner