MACBETH THEMES QUOTES

"Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One, two:

why, then, 'tis time to do't."

MADNESS Lady Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1

"My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,

Shakes so my single state of man that function

Is smothered in surmise"

AMBITION Macbeth Act 1 Scene 3

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair"

APPEARANCE VS. REALITY The Witches Act 1 Scene 1

"The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step

On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,

For in my way it lies."

BETRAYAL Macbeth Act 1 Scene 4

"Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!"

THE SUPERNATURAL The Witches Act 4 Scene 1

"Come to my woman's breasts

And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers"

GENDER Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5

"Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand?"

MADNESS Macbeth Act 2 Scene 1

"I have no spur

To prick the sides of my intent, but only

Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself

And falls on th'other-"

AMBITION Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7

"... and play the humble host"

APPEARANCE VS REALITY Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4

"How goes my wife?"

"Why,well"

BETRAYAL Macduff and Rosse Act 4 Scene 3

"Greater than both by the all-hail hereafter"

THE SUPERNATURAL Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5

"Come, you spirits

That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here"

GENDER Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5

"Methought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more,

Macbeth does murder sleep'"

MADNESS Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2

"'Gainst nature still!

Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up

Thine own life's means!"

AMBITION Rosse Act 2 Scene 4

"Your hand, your tongue; look like th'innocent flower,

But be the serpent under't."

APPEARANCE VS REALITY Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5

" 'Tis said they eat each other."

BETRAYAL Old Man Act 2 Scene 4

"Turn, hell-hound, turn!"

THE SUPERNATURAL Macduff Act 5 Scene 8

"O gentle lady,

'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak."

GENDER Macduff Act 2 Scene 3

"What's

done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed."

MADNESS Lady Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1

"I am in blood

Stepped in so far that should I wade no more,

Returning were as tedious as go o'er."

AMBITION Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4

"Never shake

Thy gory locks at me!"

APPEARANCE VS REALITY Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4

"Our fears in Banquo

Stick deep, and in his royalty of nature

Reigns that which would be feared."

BETRAYAL Macbeth Act 3 Scene 1

"I come, Graymalkin!"

"Paddock calls."

THE SUPERNATURAL The Witches Act 1 Scene 1

"Dispute it like a man."

GENDER Malcolm Act 4 Scene 3

"In the affliction of these terrible dreams

That shake us nightly."

MADNESS Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2

"Thou wouldst be great,

Art not without ambition, but without

The illness should attend it."

AMBITION Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5

"Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,

Yet grace must still look so."

APPEARANCE VS REALITY Malcolm Act 4 Scene 3

"Wisdom! To leave his wife, to leave his babes,

His mansion and his titles in a place

From whence himself does fly? He loves us not."

BETRAYAL Lady Macduff Act 4 Scene 2

"Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine,

And thrice again to make up nine.

Peace- the charms wound up."

THE SUPERNATURAL The Witches Act 1 Scene 3

"you should be women,

And yet your beards forbid me to interpret

That you are so."

GENDER Banquo Act 1 Scene 3

"Prithee, see there! Behold, look, lo! How say you?"

MADNESS Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4

"May they not be my oracles as well,

And set me up in hope? But hush! No more."

AMBITION Banquo Act 3 Scene 1

"There's no art

To find the mind's construction in the face:

He was a gentleman on whom I built

An absolute trust."

APPEARANCE VS REALITY Duncan Act 1 Scene 4

"Ring the alarum bell! Murder and treason!"

BETRAYAL Macduff Act 2 Scene 3

"There's husbandry in heaven;

Their candles are all out."

THE SUPERNATURAL Banquo Act 2 Scene 1

"Bring forth men-children only,

For thy undaunted mettle should compose

Nothing but males."

GENDER Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7

"What, will these hands ne'er be clean?"

MADNESS Lady Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1

"All that impedes thee from the golden round,

Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem

To have thee crowned withal."

AMBITION Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5

"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."

APPEARANCE VS REALITY Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7

"To betray's

In deepest consequence."

BETRAYAL Banquo Act 1 Scene 3

"Ere the bat hath flown"

"The shard-borne beetle"

"The crow makes wing to the rooky wood"

THE SUPERNATURAL Lady Macbeth and Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2

"When you durst do it, then you were a man."

GENDER Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7

"The Thane of Fife had a wife- Where is she now?"

MADNESS Lady Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1

"either thou, Macbeth,

Or else my sword with an unbattered edge

I sheathe again undeeded."

AMBITION Macduff Act 5 Scene 7

" 'Tis day

And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp."

APPEARANCE VS REALITY Rosse Act 2 Scene 4

"You may deserve of him through me, and wisdom

To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb

To appease an angry god."

BETRAYAL Malcolm Act 4 Scene 3

"Round about the cauldron go,

In the poisoned entrails throw."

THE SUPERNATURAL The Witches Act 4 Scene 1

"O, I could play the woman with mine eyes

And braggart with my tongue!"

GENDER Macduff Act 4 Scene 3

"O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!"

MADNESS Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2

"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player

That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

And then is heard no more."

AMBITION Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5

"There's daggers in men's smiles."

APPEARANCE VS REALITY Donalbain Act 2 Scene 3

"My first false speaking

Was this upon myself. What I am truly,

Is thine and my poor country's to command"

BETRAYAL Malcolm Act 4 Scene 3

"Sleep shall neither night nor day"

THE SUPERNATURAL The Witches Act 1 Scene 3

"What's the boy Malcom?

Was he not born of woman?"

GENDER Macbeth Act 5 Scene 3

"Here's the smell of blood still- all the perfumes

of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O,o,o!"

MADNESS Lady Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1

"Up, up and see

The great doom's image"

BETRAYAL Macduff Act 2 Scene 3

"That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,

Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,

To cry, 'Hold, hold.'"

THE SUPERNATURAL Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5

"None of woman born

Shall harm Macbeth"

GENDER The Witches Act 4 Scene 1