Macbeth Act 2 Quotes to Know

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

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

Banquo to Flence

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2

“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

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3

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

Macbeth in soliloquy

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4

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

Macbeth in soliloquy

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5

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

Lady Macbeth to herself

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6

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

Macbeth to Lady Macbeth

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“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

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8

“A little water clears us from this deed.”

Lady Macbeth to Macbeth

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9

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

Porter to Lennox

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10

“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

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11

“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

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12

“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

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“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

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14

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

Banquo to all

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15

“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

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