Sunday, June 27, 2010

Some quotes from the 1st act

Ian McKellan and Judy Dench as the Macbeth's
Macbeth is one of William Shakespeare's great tragedies. There's murder, battles, supernatural portents, and all the other elements of a well-worked drama. And great quotes - Here are a few from Macbeth Act 1
  • "First Witch: When shall we three meet again
    In thunder, lightning, or in rain?
    Second Witch: When the hurlyburly's done,
    When the battle's lost and won."
    - William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.1
  • "Fair is foul, and foul is fair."
    - William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.1
  • "If you can look into the seeds of time,
    And say which grain will grow and which will not."
    - William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.3
  • "If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me."
    - William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.3
  • "Come what come may,
    Time and the hour runs through the roughest day."
    - William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.3
  • "Nothing in his life
    Became him like the leaving it...
  • "More is thy due than more than all can pay."
    - William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.4
  • "Yet do I fear thy nature;
    It is too full o' the milk of human kindness."
    - William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.5
  • "Come, you spirits
    That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here,
    And fill me from the crown to the toe top full
    Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood,
    Stop up the access and passage to remorse,
    That no compunctious visitings of nature
    Shake my fell purpose."
    - William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.5
  • "Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
    May read strange matters...Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower,
    But be the serpent under 't."
    - William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.5
  • "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well
    It were done quickly
  • "Letting 'I dare not" wait upon 'I would,'
    Like the poor cat i' the adage."
    - William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.7
  • "I dare do all that may become a man;
    Who dares do more is none."
    - William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.7
  • "Screw your courage to the sticking-place,
    And we'll not fail."
    - William Shakespeare, Macbeth, 1.7
     more to come...

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