Victoria's Favorite Macbeth Quotes

Here are a few good lines out of a chilling play...

"Present fears

Are less than horrible imaginings." (Macbeth, 1.3.137)

"Come what come may,

Time and hour runs through the roughest day." (Macbeth, 1.3.146)

"My plenteous joys,

Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves

In drops of sorrow." (Duncan, weeping, 1.4.33)

"False face must hide what the false heart doth know." (Macbeth, 1.7.82)

"Where we are, there's daggers in men's smiles.

The near in blood, the nearer bloody." (Donalbain, 2.3.141)

"Nought's had, all's spent,

Where our desire is got without content.

'Tis safer to be that which we destroy

Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy." (Lady Macbeth, 3.2.4)

"You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting,

With most admired disorder." (Lady Macbeth, 3.4.112)

"I am in blood

Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,

Returning were as tedious as go o'er." (Macbeth, 3.4.139)

"The night is long that never finds the day." (Malcolm, 4.3.240)

-Victoria