53 Macbeth Quotes by William Shakespeare

Macbeth is a popular tragedy play by William Shakespeare and is thought to have been written between years 1606 and 1607.

The play chronicles the narrative of Macbeth, a general in King Duncan’s army.

The grim imagery and themes of ambition and remorse are well-known throughout the play.

Here are some of the most dramatic quotes from Macbeth.

Macbeth Quotes by William Shakespeare

“Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“What’s done cannot be undone.” ~ William Shakespeare , Macbeth.

“A little water clears us of this deed.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what’s done is done.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“All causes shall give way: I am in blood
Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Receive what cheer you may. The night is long that never finds the day.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“There is nothing serious in Mortality.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“I drink to the general joy o’ the whole table.” Macbeth” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“It provokes the desire, but it takes away the performance” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Something wicked this way comes” ~ Shakespeare, Macbeth.

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Quotes from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

“If you can look into the seeds of time And say which grain will grow and which will not, Speak, then, to me, who neither beg nor fear Your favors nor your hate.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear
His hopes ‘bove wisdom, grace and fear:
And you all know, security
Is mortals’ chiefest enemy.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Your cause of sorrow must not be measured by his worth, for then it hath no end.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“To beguile the time, look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep, – the innocent sleep;
Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak knits up the o-er wrought heart and bids it break.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Infected minds to their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Be bloody bold and resolute.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

Famous Macbeth Quotes by William Shakespeare

“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Tis safter to be that which we destroy
Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“I have supped full with horrors.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“The love that follows us sometime is our trouble, which still we thank as love.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly ‘s done, when the battle ‘s lost and won.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“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 (quote from Macbeth).

“Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Blood will have blood.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

Great Macbeth Quotes

“Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Who could refrain,
That had a heart to love, and in that heart
Courage to make love known?” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Away and mark the time with fairest show,
False face must hide what false heart doth
know.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.” ~ William Shakespeare, Macbeth

“So well thy words become thee as thy wounds,
They smack of honor both.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

Powerful Macbeth Quotes

“I am settled, and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show: False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“I go and it is done. The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.”
~ Shakespeare; William, Macbeth.

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“Sometimes when we are labeled, when we are branded our brand becomes our calling.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).

“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 (quote from Macbeth).

“Let every man be master of his time.” ~ William Shakespeare (quote from Macbeth).