Tyranny and Legitimacy Quotes in 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.

He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause / Within the belt of rule.

I ’gin to be aweary of the sun, / And wish th’ estate o’ th’ world were now undone.—

Hail, King, for so thou art. Behold, where stands / Th’ usurper’s cursed head: the time is free.

Turn, hell-hound, turn!

I will drain him dry as hay: / Sleep shall neither night nor day / Hang upon his pent-house lid; / He shall live a man forbid.

The service and the loyalty I owe, / In doing it, pays itself. Your Highness’ part / Is to receive our duties: and our duties / Are to your throne and state, children and servants; / Which do but what they should, by doing everything / Safe toward your love and honour.

We will establish our estate upon / Our eldest, Malcolm; whom we name hereafter / The Prince of Cumberland: which honour must / Not unaccompanied invest him only, / But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine / On all deservers.—

The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood / Is stopp’d; the very source of it is stopp’d.

There’s warrant in that theft / Which steals itself, when there’s no mercy left.