Macbeth Quotes

quote for first apparition

Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff / Beware the Thane of Fife

second apparition

None of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth

third apparaition

Macbeth shall never vanquished be until / Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill / Shall come against him

banquo is better in what ways

And to that dauntless temper of his mind He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valor. To act in safety. There is none but he Whose being I do fear, and under him My genius is rebuked, as it is said Mark Antony’s was by Caesar.

images of fertility and reign

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown And put a barren scepter in my grip, Thence to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding.

mention some of lady Macbeths ramblings in act 5

“Out, damned spot! out, I say!”
“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”
“What’s done cannot be undone.”
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”

what does Macbeth say after lady Macbeths death

“She should have died hereafter;
There would have been a time for such a word.”

what does Macbeth say about life

“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more.”

“It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”