English Macbeth Quotes

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Macbeth describing the deed of murder.

‘Bloody instructions’ which ‘return To plague th’inventor’

Lady Macbeth attacking her husband’s masculinity

‘When you durst do it, then you were a man’

Macbeth on accepting his fate

‘If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me Without my stir’

Lady Macbeth on Macbeth’s nature

‘I fear thy nature’ for it is ‘too full ‘o’th’milk of human kindness’ to act without pity

Lady Macbeth abandoning her feminitity.

‘tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here’

Lady Macbeth telling Macbeth to hide is true intentions

‘look like th’innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t.

Macbeth with the dagger

‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?’ He wonders if it is a ‘fatal vision’.

Macbeth on saying ‘Amen’

Macbeth describes how he hears voices which said ‘Amen’, and he could not reply with the same. ‘I had most need of blessing and “Amen” Stuck in my throat’

Lady Macbeth telling Macbeth to wash his hands and cleanse himself of his guilt

‘Go get some water’ and ‘wash this filthy witness from your hand’

Macbeth on washing his guilt away

‘What hands are here? Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?

Donaldbrain replying to Malcom about the state’s corruption with Macbeth crowned.

‘There’s daggers in men’s smiles’

Macbeth on the effects of his ambition and corruption- describing his crown.

‘Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown’

Lady Macbeth on accepting fate

‘What’s done, is done.’- contrast with what she says later whilst sleepwalking (‘what’s done cannot be undone’- more guilt instead of ambition).

Macbeth complaining to his wife about his corrupted and wrought mind

‘O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!’

Lady Macbeth on guilt with blood

‘Out damned spot!…all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O,O,O.’