Macbeth Quote by William Shakespeare

“A condensed Shakespeare with all of the dull parts removed, leaving only the great moments of drama: ghosts, and bloodied daggers, and dying kings.”

— John Connolly

“Have I not reason, beldams as you are, Saucy and overbold? How did you dare To trade and traffic with Macbeth In riddles and…

— William Shakespeare

“And the dead leaves lie huddled and still, No longer blown hither and thither; The last lone aster is gone; The flowers of the…

— Robert Frost

“Can you blame me, my dear, for looking on this attachment as a romantic folly inspired by that cursed Shakespeare who will poke his…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“Until i die there will be these moments, moments seeming to rise up out of the ground like Macbeth's witches, when his face will…

— James Baldwin

“Macbeth was played before the first Stuart king of Great Britain and Ireland, James VI of Scots and I of England, and this scene…

— Allan Massie

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

— Naseeruddin Shah

“Sadly as some old mediaeval knight Gazed at the arms he could no longer wield, The sword two-handed and the shining shield Suspended in…

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Shakespeare's plays are not in the rigorous and critical sense either tragedies or comedies, but compositions of a distinct kind; exhibiting the real state…

— Samuel Johnson

I started to itch to do a play again and 'Macbeth' came to the surface in my mind. I never thought I would do…

— Alan Cumming

With 'Lady Macbeth,' I had two other things offered to me, and they would have also been very fun, but you just have to…

— Florence Pugh

“The long, curled hair, the dark head bent so reverently, so innocently before her, implied a pair of the finest legs that a young…

— Virginia Woolf