Macbeth quotes

Macbeth - Ambition

1. "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other." - (Act 1, Scene 7)
2. "Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires." - (Act 1, Scene 4)
3. "To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus." - (Act 3, Scene 1)

Macbeth - Guilt

1. "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep." - (Act 2, Scene 2)
2. "Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?" - (Act 2, Scene 2)
3. "I am in blood stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er." - (Act 3, Scene 4)

Lady Macbeth - Ambition and Manipulation

1. "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!" - (Act 1, Scene 5)

2. "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't." - (Act 1, Scene 5)3. "Was the hope drunk wherein you dress'd yourself? Hath it slept since?" - (Act 1, Scene 7)

Lady Macbeth - Guilt and Madness

1. "Wash this filthy witness from your hand." - (Act 2, Scene 2)
2. "Out, damned spot! out, I say!" - (Act 5, Scene 1)
3. "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." - (Act 5, Scene 1)

The Witches - Fate and Supernatural

1. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." - (Act 1, Scene 1)
2. "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble." - (Act 4, Scene 1)
3. "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." - (Act 4, Scene 1)

Banquo - Loyalty and Integrity

1. "There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out." - (Act 2, Scene 1)
2. "Merciful powers, restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to in repose!" - (Act 2, Scene 1)
3. "O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou mayst revenge." - (Act 3, Scene 3)

Macduff - Loyalty and Vengeance

1. "O, horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!" - (Act 2, Scene 3)
2. "But I must also feel it as a man." - (Act 4, Scene 3)
3. "Lay on, Macduff, and damned be him that first cries, 'Hold, enough!'" - (Act 5, Scene 8)