Macbeth + Antigone Quotes

Macbeth

Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

Haemon

No, it’s no disgrace for a man, even a wise man, to learn many things and not to be too rigid.

Doctor

Foul whisp’rings are abroad. Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds

To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets. More needs she the divine than the physician.

Third Apparition

Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are.

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

Ross

But cruel are the times when we are traitors And do not know ourselves; when we hold rumor From

what we fear, yet know not what we fear, But float upon a wild and violent sea Each way and move.

Creon

Am I to rule this land for others—or myself?

Lady Macbeth

Out, damned spot, out, I say!

Duncan

There’s no art To find the mind’s construction in the face.

Chorus

Sooner or later foul is fair, fair is foul to the man the gods will ruin.

Macbeth

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me Without my stir.

Macbeth

We have scorched the snake, not killed it. She’ll close and be herself whilst our poor malice

Remains in danger of her former tooth.

creon

Of course you cannot know a man completely, his character, his principles, sense of judgment, not till

he’s shown his colors, ruling the people, making laws.

Macbeth

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.

Creon

We must defend the men who live by law, never let some woman triumph over us.

Lady Macbeth

Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.

Macbeth

Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow Creeps in this petty pace from day to day

To the last syllable of recorded time.

Malcolm

Be this the whetstone of your sword. Let grief Convert to anger. Blunt not the heart; enrage it.

Donalbain

Where we are, There’s daggers in men’s smiles. The near in blood, The nearer bloody.

Leader to Creon

My king, ever since he began, I’ve been debating in my mind, could this possibly be the work of the gods?

Banquo

Thou hast it now—king, Cawdor, Glamis, allAs the Weïrd Women promised, and I fear

Thou played’st most foully for ’t.

All the Witches

Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air.

Haemon

It’s no city at all, owned by one man alone.

Antigone

Nor did I think your edict had such force that you, a mere mortal, could override the gods.

Macbeth

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

Ismene

Remember we are women, we’re not born to contend with men.

Tiresias

Stubbornness brands you for stupidity—pride is a crime.

Lady Macbeth

Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.

Angus

Now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe Upon a dwarfish thief.

Lady Mcduff

Whither should I fly? I have done no harm.

Malcolm

Macduff, this noble passion, Child of integrity, hath from my soul Wiped the black scruples.

Antigone

They would praise me too if their lip weren’t locked in fear.

Lady Mcduff son

Then the liars and swearers are fools.

Antigone

And if my present actions strike you as foolish, let’s just say I’ve been accused of folly by a fool.

Chorus

When he weaves in the laws of the land… he and his city rise high.

Second Apparition

Be bloody, bold, and resolute.

Gentlewoman to doctor

Since his Majesty went into the field, I have seen her rise from her bed…

Ross

Your castle is surprised, your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered.

Creon

Oh it’s hard giving up a heart’s desire…but I will do it- no more fighting a losing battle with necessity.

Macduff

Sinful Macduff, they were all struck for thee!

Chorus

Wisdom is by far the greatest part of joy.

First Apparition

Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff!

Old man to ross

’Tis unnatural, even like the deed that’s done.

Lady Macbeth

Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.

Chorus

Attacks on power never go unchecked.

Banquo

And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

Messenger to leader in Antigone

Creon shows the world that of all the ills afflicting men the worst is lack of judgment.