Macbeth Top 13 Quotes

A Quote showing Lady Macbeth’s guilt

"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!" - Lady Macbeth

A Quote showing Macbeth’s lunacy before mudering Duncan

"Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?" - Macbeth

A Quote showing the troublesome nature of the witches

"Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble." - Three Witches

A Quote showing the deceptive nature of the witches

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair." - Three Witches

A Quote showing Macbeth’s broken mental state

"Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more." - Macbeth

A quote showing the witches’ desire for trouble

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." - Second Witch

A quote showing Lady Macbeth’s manipulative nature at the start

"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it." - Lady Macbeth

A quote showing Lady Macbeth’s admission of guilt

"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." - Lady Macbeth

A Quote showing Macbeth’s depressed state of mind

"To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day, to the last syllable of recorded time; and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death." - Macbeth

A Quote showing the Witches’ desire to cause evil

"By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes." - Second Witch

A Quote showing how no one is to be trusted

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

A Quote showing the delusion of Macbeth to trust the witches

"Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him." - Second Apparition

A Quote showing Macbeth’s admission of his hamartia

"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other." - Macbeth