GCSE MACBETH QUOTES

I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent only vaulting ambition

Ambition - Macbeth “I have”

Macduff reaction to Duncan death

I must also feel it as a man

Malcom kingship

What I am truly is thine, and my poor country's to command

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face

Duncan kingship, can be deceived

All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!

Witches prophecy

Signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine on all deservers

Duncan rewarding loyalty

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown

Macbeth on becoming king

O, full of scorpions is my mind

Macbeth mental

His virtues… will plead like angels

Duncans kingship

The intruments of darkness tell us truths

Banquo response to prophecy

When you durst do it, then you were a man

Lady Macbeth - Ambition

Life.. is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing

Macbeth - Ambition “life…”

Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires

Macbeth - supernatural

that my keen knife see not the wound it makes nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark

Lady Macbeth - the supernatural

The dead butcher and his fiend-like queen

Malcolm - the supernatural

Come you spirits… unsex me here

Lady Macbeth - appearance vs reality ‘come’

Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent underneath it

Lady Macbeth - appearance vs reality “look”

Out damned spot: out, I say!

Lady Macbeth - hallucinations

Out out brief candle

Macbeth - brevity of life

A little water clears us of this deed

Lady Macbeth - guilt ‘a little’

Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?

Macbeth - guilt ‘will’

All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand

Lady Macbeth - guilt ‘all’

Fair is foul and foul is fair

Witches paradox

So foul and fair a day I have not seen

Macbeth echoing the witches paradox

Cannot be ill, cannot be good; if ill, why hath it given me earnest of success, commencing in a truth

Macbeth on Fate

I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none

Macbeth on loyalty

Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear thy stones prate of my whereabout

Macbeth on guilt ‘hear’

That I may pour my spirits in thine ear; and chastise with the valour of my tongue, all that impedes thee from the golden round

Lady Macbeth on loyalty

A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight

Lady Macbeth on guilt - ‘a foolish’

When the hurlyburly’s done, when the battle’s lost and won

The witches on the supernatural ‘when’

Lesser than Macbeth, and greater

Witches on fate

He will not be commanded, and here’s another, more potent than the first

The witches on the supernatural ‘he’

Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all

Banquo on Macbeth’s prophecy

O treachery! Fly good Fleance, fly, fly

Banquo on his son

Restrain in me the cursed thoughts

Banquo resisting the prophesies