Quotes from Macbeth — William Shakespeare
1564–1616 England
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Take no care
Who chafes, who frets; and where conspirers are:
Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be.
Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak
Whispers the o'er-fraught heart and bids it break.
You can behold such sights,
And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks,
When mine is blanch'd with fear.
I 'gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish the estate o' the world were now undone.
Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,
And look on death itself!
Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear
Your favours nor your hate.
They say he parted well, and paid his score;
And so, God be with him!
The flighty purpose never is o'ertook,
Unless the deed go with it.
Now good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both!
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs.
To feed were best at home;
From thence the sauce to meat is ceremony;
Meeting were bare without it.
But yet I'll make assurance double sure,
And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.
My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.
My plenteous joys,
Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves
In drops of sorrow.
You should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so.
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