Macbeth Quotes and Characters

Fair is foul, and foul is fair.

Hover through the fog and filthy air

Witches

Double, double, toil and trouble;

Fire burn and cauldron bubble.

Witches

By the pricking of my thumbs,

Something wicked this way comes.

Second Witch

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Macbeth

Stars, hide your fires;

Let not light see my black and deep desires.

The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be

Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.

Macbeth

If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well

It were done quickly

Macbeth

Away, and mock the time with fairest show:

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Macbeth

Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.

Macbeth

I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.

Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell

That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.

Macbeth

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood

Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather

The multitudinous seas incarnadine,

Making the green one red.

Macbeth

I heard a voice cry, "Sleep no more!

Macbeth does murder sleep" -the innocent sleep,

Macbeth

Duncan is in his grave;

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.

Macbeth

If you can look into the seeds of time,

And say which grain will grow and which will not,

Banquo

Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear

Your favors nor your hate.

Banquo

Were such things here as we do speak about?

Or have we eaten on the insane root

That takes the reason prisoner?

Banquo

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,

The instruments of darkness tell us truths,

Win us with honest trifles, to betray's

In deepest consequence-

Banquo

I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters:

To you they have show'd some truth.

Banquo

I have observed

The air is delicate.

Banquo

This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air

Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself

Unto our gentle senses.

Duncan

There's no art

To find the mind's construction in the face:

He was a gentleman on whom I built

An absolute trust.

Duncan

Fair and noble hostess,

We are your guest tonight.

Duncan

Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,

And fix'd his head upon our battlements

Captain

Yet do I fear thy nature.

It is too full o' the milk of human kindness

Lady Macbeth

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

When you durst do it, then you were a man,

And, to be more than what you were, you would

Be so much more the man.

Lady Macbeth

Had he not resembled

My father as he slept, I had done't.

Lady Macbeth

These deeds must not be thought

After these ways; so, it will make us mad.

Lady Macbeth

Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One- two -why then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?

Lady Macbeth

Ring the alarum bell. Murder and treason!

Banquo and Donalbain! Malcolm, awake!

Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,

And look on death itself!

Macduff

Despair thy charm,

And let the angel whom thou still hast served

Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother's womb

Untimely ripp'd.

Macduff

There's daggers in men's smiles; the near in blood,

The nearer bloody.

Donalbain

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,

Yet grace must still look so.

Malcolm

Let every soldier hew him down a bough,

And bear't before him; thereby shall we shadow

The numbers of our host, and make discovery

Err in report of us.

Malcolm