MacBeth Act 1 Quotes To Know

“Fair is foul and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.”

“Fair is foul and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.”

Witches aloud (oxymoron)

“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”

MacBeth to Banquo

“But ‘tis strange:and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us in deepest consequence.”

Banquo to MacBeth

“I have begun to plant thee, and will labor to make thee full of growing.”

Duncan to MacBeth

“The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else over leap for in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires!”

MacBeth to himself

“What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full of milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great.”

Lady Macbeth aloud

“Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty.”

Lady Macbeth aloud

“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which over leaps itself, and falls on the other.”

Macbeth in soliloquy to himself

We will proceed no further in this business: He hath honored me of late, and I have bought Golden opinions from all sorts of people, which would be worn now in their newest gloss, not cast aside so soon.”

Macbeth to Lady MacBeth

“We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we’ll not fail.”

Lady Macbeth to Macbeth

“Away and mock the time with fairest show: false face must hide what the false heart doth know.”

MacBeth to Lady Macbeth