Macbeth Quotes

Quotes from Shakespeare's play, Macbeth
 

Before Macbeth lost his mind...

Have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?

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Was Einstein on Macbeth's side?

"Imagination is more important than knowledge."

Given that Macbeth had a very vivid imagination, and some would argue he spent less time thinking and more time imagining, what does this quotation suggest about the limits and lengths of his imagination?

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What makes Macbeth tick?

"A man's character is his fate."

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Foul

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

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Rendezvous

When Shall we three meet again?
In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

When the hurly-burly's done,
When the battle's lost and won.

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I have bought/ Golden opinions from all sorts of people.-Macbeth 1, vii, 32

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Dark Hope

Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell...

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Getting unstuck

Screw your courage to the sticking-place
And we'll not fail.

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Brief candle

all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more...

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Actions and Thoughts

Be great in act, as you have been in thought.

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