Macbeth Quotes

They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, / But, bear-like I must fight the course.—

Turn, hell-hound, turn!

Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane, / And thou oppos’d, being of no woman born, / Yet I will try the last. Before my body / I throw my warlike shield: lay on, Macduff; / And damn’d be him that first cries, “Hold, enough!”

As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion.

Till that Bellona’s bridegroom, lapp’d in proof, / Confronted him with self-comparisons, / Point against point, rebellious arm ’gainst arm, / Curbing his lavish spirit: and, to conclude, / The victory fell on us.

Was the hope drunk / Wherein you dress’d yourself? Hath it slept since? / And wakes it now, to look so green and pale / At what it did so freely?

Had he not resembled / My father as he slept, I had done’t.—

I am one, my liege, / Whom the vile blows and buffets of the world / Hath so incens’d that I am reckless what / I do to spite the world.

So is he mine; and in such bloody distance, / That every minute of his being thrusts / Against my near’st of life;

Safe in a ditch he bides, / With twenty trenched gashes on his head; / The least a death to nature.