English Macbeth Quotes

Lady Macbeths blood on her hands (Guilt)

 "Out, damned spot! Out, I say!”

Macbeth speak on banquo being buried (Guilt)

"Banquo’s buried; he cannot come out on’s grave."

Macbeth is troubled after Killing Ducan (Guilt)

“Macbeth sleeps no more”

Macbeths is anxious after ordering Banquo/Fleance’s assassination (Guilt)

“O, full of scorpions is my mind"

Macbeth wishes to wash his hands of his sins (Guilt)

"Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?

Macbeth wishes for Duncan to wake again (Guilt)

“Wake up Duncan with your knocking! I wish you could!”

Lady Macbeths final guilt (Guilt)

“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”

Macbeth wants to keep his kingship secure (Power and ambition)

“To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo stick deep”

Witches foreshadowing of Macbeth doing what is necessary even if it is foul (Power and ambition)s

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”

Macbeths first ambition after the prophecies (Power and ambition)

“Stars, hide your fire”

Macbeth sees a dagger infront of him (Power and ambition)

"Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle towards my hand?”

Macbeth reaches for said dagger (Power and ambition)

“let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.”

(Trust and betrayal)