Macbeth Play Quotes - Page 3

• If music be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die.

  William Shakespeare

  Music, Food, Unrequited Love

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• What light through yonder window breaks?

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Romantic, Light

  'Romeo And Juliet' (1595) act 2, sc. 2, l. 1

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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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• Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.

  William Shakespeare

  Joy, Lady Macbeth, Important Macbeth

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.150, Classic Books Company

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• Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Childhood, Anxiety

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

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• Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack! At least we'll die with harness on our back.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Bells

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 47

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• If music be the food of love, play on.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Inspirational, Romantic

  'Twelfth Night' (1601) act 1, sc. 1, l. 1

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• Macbeth: How does your patient, doctor? Doctor: Not so sick, my lord, as she is troubled with thick-coming fancies that keep her from rest. Macbeth: Cure her of that! Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, raze out the written troubles of the brain, and with some sweet oblivious antidote cleanse the stuffed bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon her heart. Doctor: Therein the patient must minister to himself.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Memories, Heart

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Four Tragedies: Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Macbeth”, p.892, Bantam Classics

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• Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.

  William Shakespeare

  Cheer, Night, Long

  1606 Malcolm. Macbeth, act 4, sc.3, l.242.

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• Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased, Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow, Raze out the written troubles of the brain

  William Shakespeare

  Memories, Brain, Mind

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 37

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• We fail!
  But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
  And we'll not fail.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Encouraging, Courage

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 54

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• Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care
  Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are!

  William Shakespeare

  Lions, Care, Proud

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Macbeth”, p.73, Palgrave Macmillan

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• If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.

  William Shakespeare

  Witty, Done, Action

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 1

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• Your face is a book, where men may read strange matters.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Memorable, Men

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• Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.

  William Shakespeare

  Confused, Confusion, Emotion

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [72]

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• Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Night, Greatness, Born Leaders

  "Book of Humorous Quotations" by Connie Robertson, (p. 29), 1998.

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• Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.

  William Shakespeare

  Return, Taught, Important Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 1

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• Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires: The eyes wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Eye, Fire

  William Shakespeare (2015). “Macbeth: Third Series”, p.152, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• I cannot but remember such things were that were most precious to me.

  William Shakespeare

  Remembrance, Remember

  William Shakespeare (1843). “Macbeth”, p.59

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• Better be with the dead,
  Whom we to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
  Than on the torture of the mind to lie
  In restless ecstasy.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Anxiety, Mind

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

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• Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet Grace must still look so.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Grace, Looks

  William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.229, Classic Books Company

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• it provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance

  William Shakespeare

  Drinking, Alcohol, Desire

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 3, l. [28]

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• My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man That function is smothered in surmise, And nothing is but what is not.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Lady Macbeth, Murder

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 130

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• But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in To saucy doubts and fears.

  William Shakespeare

  Doubt, Confined, Bounds

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 24

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• Come, seeling night, Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day, And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond Which keeps me pale. Light thickens, and the crow Makes wing to th' rooky wood. Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, While night's black agents to their prey do rouse.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Night, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 2, l. 45

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