Macbeth Conflict Quotes - Page 2

• Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead are but as pictures: ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

  William Shakespeare

  Sleep, Eye, Giving

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 52

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• If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then unto me.

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Future, Knowledge

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 58

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

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Brain, Mind

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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• The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Truth, Darkness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 123

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• Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Results, Ill

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.159, Classic Books Company

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

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Prayer, Sleep

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 11

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

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Lady Macbeth, Crowns

  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Macbeth Act I, Scene 3, l. 143

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• To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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  Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Memorable, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 4

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