Quotes About MacDuff

MacDuff I knew at Cambridge." "Oh, you did, did you? Describe him." "Tall. Tall and absurdly thin. And good-natured. A bit like a preying mantis that doesn't prey—a non-preying mantis if you like. A sort of pleasant genial mantis that's given up preying and taken up tennis instead.

ROSS You must have patience, madam. LADY MACDUFF He had none: His flight was madness: when our actions do not, Our fears do make us traitors.

'Macbeth' sags in act four - the England scene with Malcolm and Macduff just doesn't work theatrically. But with 'Hamlet,' although the play is so long, Shakespeare manages to sustain the arc.

He left such a reputation behind him that even his birth was said to have proclaimed him a monster. He had been two years, we are told, in his mother's womb, and was born or rather, like Macduff, was by a surgical operation separated from his mother's body when he came into the world feet foremost, with teeth in his jaws, and with hair down to the shoulders.