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William Shakespeare was a renowned English poet, playwright, and actor born in 1564 in Stratford-upon-Avon. He has become the most famous and influential author in English literature. Shakespeare is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the worldโs pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called Englandโs national poet and nicknamed the Bard of Avon. Shakespeare produced most of his known works between 1589 and 1613. He wrote about 38 plays, 154 sonnets, two long narrative poems, and a few other verses, of which the authorship of some is uncertain. Shakespeareโs writing developed and evolved throughout his career. Scholars often divide his work into periods based on different aspects of his writing style.
He died within a month of signing his will, a document which he begins by describing himself as being in โperfect healthโ. In his will, Shakespeare left the bulk of his large estate to his elder daughter Susanna. Shakespeare was buried in the chancel of the Holy Trinity Church two days after his death. He retired from writing in 1613 and died three years later at the age of fifty-two. Most of his works were published posthumously in 1623. Shakespeareโs plays remain highly popular today and are constantly studied, performed, and reinterpreted in diverse cultural and political contexts throughout the world.
Macbeth Quotes
โThe color of the king doth come and go,
Between his purpose and his conscience,
Like heralds โtwixt two dreadful battles set:
His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.โ
The Plays and Poems of Shakspeare: Macbeth. King John. Richard the Second (ed. 1833)
โThou canst not say I did it: never shake
Thy gory locks at me.โ
Macbeth (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 50
โBut now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.โ
Macbeth (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 24
โDouble, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and cauldron bubble.โ
Macbeth (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 10
โTo be thus is nothing; But to be safely thus.โ
โNow good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!โ
Macbeth (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 38
โMacbeth: What is the night?
Lady Macbeth: Almost at odds with morning, which is which.โ
Macbeth, III, iv, 126
โTo show an unfelt sorrow is an office
Which the false man does easy.โ
Macbeth, II, iii, 143
โIf chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.โ
Macbeth (1606), I, iii, 143
โWho can be wise, amazโd, temperate and furious, loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.โ
โPour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth.โ
Macbeth, IV, iii, 98
โBring me no more reports; let them fly all:
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane
I cannot taint with fear.โ
Macbeth (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 1
โHang out our banners on the outward walls;
The cry is still, โThey comeโ; our castleโs strength Will laugh a siege to scorn.โ
Macbeth, V, v, 1
โMacduff was from his motherโs womb Untimely rippโd.โ
Macbeth, V, vii, 44
โThey have tied me to the stake, I cannot fly, But, bear-like, I must fight the course.โ
โMy fell of hair
Would at a dismal treatise rouse and stir
As life were in โt. I have suppโd full with horrors.โ
Macbeth, V v, 11
โThou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear The very stones prate of my whereabout.โ
Macbeth, II, i, 56
โIt was the owl that shrieked, the fatal bellman,
Which gives the sternโst good-night.โ
Macbeth (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 4
โCome to my womanโs breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers.โ
Macbeth (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [47]
โAway, and mock the time with fairest show: False face must hide what the false heart doth know.โ
โAnd to be king
Stands not within the prospect of belief.โ
Macbeth (1606), I, iii, 73
โOr have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?โ
Macbeth (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 84
โYet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?โ
Macbeth (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [42]
โThe bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.โ
Macbeth (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 62
โWhy should I play the Roman fool; and die on mine own sword?โ
โTill he unseamed him from the nave to the chaps,
And fixed his head upon our battlements.โ
Macbeth (1606) act 1, sc. 2, l. 22
โShow his eyes, and grieve his heart;
Come like shadows, so depart.โ
Macbeth, IV, i, 110
โYour face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters.โ
Macbeth (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [63]
โMerciful powers!
Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature Gives way to in repose.โ
Macbeth, II, i, 7
โGive sorrow words: the grief that does not speak whispers the oโer-fraught heart, and bids it break.โ
โSo weary with disasters, tuggโd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend it or be rid onโt.โ
Macbeth, III, i, 112
โThe attempt and not the deed Confounds us.โ
Macbeth, II, ii, 12
โNow spurs the lated traveler apace
To gain the timely inn.โ
Macbeth, III, iii, 6
โI drink to the general joy of the whole table.โ
Macbeth, III, iv, 89
โI dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none.โ
โThe devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!
Where gottโst thou that goose look?โ
Macbeth (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 11
โThe devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon!
Where gottโst thou that goose look?โ
Macbeth (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 11
โAngels are bright still, though the brightest fell.โ
Macbeth, IV, iii, 22
โI am in blood
Steppโd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go oโer.โ
Macbeth, III, iv, 136
โCome what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day.โ
โLay on, Macduff;
And damned be him that first cries, โHold, enough!โโ
Macbeth (1606) act 5, sc. 7, l. 62
โThe earth hath bubbles, as the water has,
And these are of them.โ
Macbeth (1606), I, iii, 79
โBloody instructions, which, being taught, return,
To plague the inventor.โ
Macbeth (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 9
โHad he not resembled
My father as he slept I had doneโt.โ
Macbeth (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 14
โHis flight was madness: when our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors.โ
โTwo truths are told,
As happy prologues to the swelling act
Of the imperial theme.โ
Macbeth (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 127
โThereโs husbandry in heaven;
Their candles are all out.โ
Macbeth (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 4
โWhat! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?โ
Macbeth, IV, i, 117
โFair is foul, and foul is fair:
Hover through the fog and filthy air.โ
Macbeth (1606) act 1, sc. 1, l. 11
โLook like the innocent flower, but be the serpent underโt.โ
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