Macbeth Quotes

Quote when Lady Macbeth first kills King Duncan

A little water will clear us of this deed

Quote when Lady Macbeth gets rid of her feminine traits

Unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty

Quote that LMB shows that she is fearful of Macbeths kind nature

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o'the milk of human kindness

Quote when Macbeth laments life

Out, out, brief candle. Life's but a walking shadow... Told by an idiot, full of fury and sound, signifying nothing

Macbeth guilt after first killing Duncan

I am afraid to think what I have done, Look on't again I dare not.

LMB's quote when the guilt overwhelms here

Out damned spot, out i say...Here's the smell of the blood still

Banquo's quote when questioning the dark prophecies

The instruments of darkness tell us truths...to betray's in deepest consequence

Banquo thinking about his own fate

It was said...that myself should be the root and father of many kings...

How does Macduff react to the death of Duncan

"O horror horror, horror!... Murder and treason!

How does Macbeth juxtapose this

"Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time,"

How does it show that Macduff is loyal to Scotland

O' Scotland, Scotland!... O nation miserable, with an untitled tyrant bloody scepted, when shalt thou see thy wholesome days again?

How does Macduff react to the death of his children

All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! all?

What are words used to describe Macbeth

black Macbeth, hell-kite, devil, fiend

How does Malcolm test Macduff's loyalty

By presenting himself as an unworthy King

What does Malcolm say about himself

"In my voluptuousness. Your wives, your daughters, your matrons, and your maids could not fill up the cisterns of my lust"

Macbeth gaining power, and is now paranoid of keeping it

To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus

LMB's internal feeling after becoming queen

Naught's had, all's spent where our desire is got without content

Difference in how MB describes LMB

before: My dearest partner of greatness

after: Be innocent of this knowledge, deares chuck

MB on not being able to cross his moral boundary

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

Quote that shows LMB ambition

Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it

Banquo restraining his ambition

A heavy summons lies like lead upon me...Merciful powers, restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature GIves way to in response

Quote where Macbeth knows he has gone against God

One cried, 'God bless us'...I could not say ' Amen' when they did say 'God bless us'

MB becoming desensitised to killing

I have almost forgot the taste of fears... Direness, familar to my slaughterous thoughts cannot once start me

King duncan being described as heavenly

his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off

Macduff praying to God when fighting Macbeth

gentle heavens, Cut short all intermissions. Front to front Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself

Witches prophecy of killing Macbeth

Beware Macduff, none of women born shall harm Macbeth, Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him

Macbeth going to fight despite knowing he lost

Accursed be that tongue that tells me so, For it hath cowed my better part of man

King Duncan being unable to read a persons mind

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

Macbeth seeing dagger

Are thou..sensible to feeling to sight? or art thou but a dagger of the mind?

LMB quote when promising to kill her baby

I would...Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed his brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this

Macduff's masculinity when finding out his kids are killed

I shall do so, but I must also feel it as a man