Famous quotes containing the words david and/or macbeth:
“Can there be any greater reproach than an idle learning? Learn to split wood, at least.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“When Lady Mary Tufton married Dr. Duncan, an elderly physician, Mr. George Selwyn said, “How often will she say with Macbeth ‘Wake, Duncan, with thy knocking—would thou couldst!’””
—Horace Walpole (1717–1797)