Macbeth Quotes

Ambition 1

Ambition 1

'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

Ambition 2

'Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o'th' milk of human kindness' Lady Macbeth

Ambition 3

'My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white’ Lady Macbeth

Ambition 4

'Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on th' other.' Macbeth

Ambition 5

'To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus' Macbeth

Ambition 6

'Upon my head they place a fruitless crown' Macbeth

Ambition 7

'We have scorched the snake not killed it' Macbeth

Appearance vs Reality 1

'Fair is foul and foul is fair; hover through fog and filthy air' The witches

Appearance vs Reality 2

'So foul and fair a day I have not seen' Macbeth

Appearance vs Reality 3

'This supernatural solliciting cannot be ill; cannot be good' Macbeth

Appearance vs Reality 4

'Look like th'innocent flower but be the serpent under't' Lady Macbeth

Appearance vs Reality 5

'Mock the time with fairest show false face must hide what false heart doth know' Macbeth

Guilt/Madness 1

'If it were done, when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well done quickly’ Macbeth

Guilt/Madness 2

'Bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague th’inventor’ Macbeth

Guilt/Madness 3

'Will all great Neptune's oceans come to wash the blood clean from my hand?' Macbeth

Guilt/Madness 4

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

Guilt/Madness 5

'now I am cabinned, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears' Macbeth

Guilt/Madness 6

'Prithee see there! Behold, look, lo!' Macbeth

Guilt/Madness 7

'I am in blood stepped in so far that should I wade no more' Macbeth

Guilt/Madness 8

'To bed, to bed there's knocking at the gate, come come come, give me your hand: what is done, cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed’ Lady Macbeth

Kingship and Loyalty 1

'O horror, horror, horror! Tongue, nor heart, cannot conceive nor name thee!' Macduff

Kingship and Loyalty 2

'Most sacrilegous murther hath broke ope the Lord's anointed temple' Macduff

Kingship and Loyalty 3

'A barren sceptre in my gripe[..] wrenched with an unlineal hand' Macbeth

Kingship and Loyalty 4

'Our suffering country, under a hand accurs'd' Lennox’'

Kingship and Loyalty 5

'Bleed, bleed poor country' Macduff

Kingship and Loyalty 6

'It weeps, it bleeds and each new day a gash is added to her wounds' Macduff

Kingship and Loyalty 7

'The dead butcher and his fiend-like Queen' Malcolm

Kingship and Loyalty 8

'His virtues will plead like angels; trumpet tongued against the deep damnation of his taking off' Macbeth

Supernatural 1

'So withered and wild in their attire' Banquo

Supernatural 2

'Double double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble' The witches

Supernatural 3

'They have tied me to a stake' Macbeth

Supernatural 4

But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, brandished by a man that's of woman born' Macbeth

Supernatural 5

'By the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes' The witches

Bravery 1

'like Valour's minion' Captain

Bravery 2

'Bellona's bridegroom' Captain

Bravery 3

''Be this the whetstone of your sword: let grief convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it' Malcolm

Bravery 4

'Turn, Hellhound, turn’ Macbeth

Gender 1

'unsex me here' Lady Macbeth

Gender 2

''Make thick my blood, stop up th'accéss and passage to remorse' Lady Macbeth

Gender 3

'Take my milk for gall' Lady Macbeth

Gender 4

'And live a coward in thine own esteem' Lady Macbeth

Gender 5

''tis the eye of childhood that fears the painted Devil'