Macbeth Act 2 Quotes to Know

“Hold, take my sword. There’s husbandry in heaven. Their candles are all out.”

Banquo to Flence

“So I lose non in seeking to augment it, but still keep my bosom franchised and allegiance clear, I shall be counseled.”

Macbeth to Banquo

“Is this a dagger which I see before me, they handle toward my hand? Come let me clutch thee.”

Macbeth in soliloquy

“Thou marshal’st me the way that I was going: and such an instrument I was to use.”

Macbeth in soliloquy

“Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done it.”

Lady Macbeth to herself

“Listn’ning their fear, I could not say ‘amen’ when they did say ‘God bless us!’”

Macbeth to Lady Macbeth

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No: this my hand will rather the multitudinous sea incarnadine, making the green one red.”

Macbeth aloud

“A little water clears us from this deed.”

Lady Macbeth to Macbeth

“Faith sir, we were carousing till the second cock; and drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things.”

Porter to Lennox

“The night has been unruly. Where we lay our chimneys were blown down, and as they say lamenting heard I th’ air, strange screams of death.”

Lennox to Macbeth

“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope the Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence the life of the building.”

MacDuff to all

“tis not for you to hear what I can speak: the repetition in a woman’s ear would murder as it fell.”

MacDuff to Lady Macbeth

“the murderers, steeped in the colors of their trade, their daggers unmannerly breeched with gore. Who could refrain, that had a heart to love, and in that heart, courage to make love known?

Macbeth to all

“In the great hand of God I stand, and thence against the undivulged pretense I fight of treasonous malice.”

Banquo to all

“Our seperated fortune shall keep us both the safer. Where we are there’s daggers in men’s smiles; the near in blood, the nearer bloody.”

Donalbain to Malcom