Macbeth Act 1 Quote Identification

Away, and mock the time with fairest show./False face must hide what the false heart doth

know. (I.vii, 81-82)

Macbeth

Fair is foul, and foul is fair. (I.i,12)

Witches

Sleep shall neither night nor day

Hang upon his penthouse lid.

He shall live a man forbid.

Weary sennights nine times nine

Shall he dwindle, peak, and pine.

Though his bark cannot be lost,

Yet it shall be tempest-tost. (I,iii,19-25)

Witches(Witch 1 specifically)

So foul and fair a day I have not seen. (I,iii,38)

Macbeth

You should be women,

And yet your beards forbid me to interpret

that you are so. (I,iii,45-47)

Banquo

Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear

Things that do sound so fair? (I,iii 51-52)

Banquo

Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.

Not so happy, yet much happier.

Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none. (I,iii,65-67)

Witches

Why do you dress me in borrowed robes? (I.iii,108-109)

Macbeth

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. (I.iii,123-126)

Banquo

There's no art/To find the mind's construction in the face. (I.iv,11-12)

King Duncan

But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine/on all deservers. (I.iv,41-42)

King Duncan

Stars, hide your fires,/Let not light see my black and deep desires. (I.iv,50-51)

Macbeth

Glamis thou are, and Cawdor, and shalt be

What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature.

It is too full o' the milk of human kindness

To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great,

Art not without ambition, but without

The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly,

That wouldst thou holily -- wouldst not play false,

And yet wouldst wrongly win. (I.v,16-23)

Lady Macbeth

Your face, my Thane, is as a book where men/ May read strange matters. (I.v,63-64)

Lady Macbeth

Look like the innocent flower/But be the serpent under't. (I.v,66-67)

Lady Macbeth