mb quotes

the Witches

"When shall we three meet again?/ In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"

the Witches

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair;"

Captain

"For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name),/ Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished steel,/ Which smoked with bloody execution,/ Like Valor's minion, carved out his passage/ Till he faced the slave;"

Ross

mentions "Bellona's bridegroom"

Macbeth

"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."

Banquo

"You should be women,/ And yet your beards forbid me to interpret/ That you are so."

the Witches

"Thane of Glamis!/ Thane of Cawdor!/ king hereafter!"

Banquo

"Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear/ Things that do sound so fair?"

Banquo

"My noble partner/ You greet with present grace and great prediction/ Of noble having and of royal hope, That he seems rapt withal."

Ross

"And for an earnest of a greater honor,/ He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor,"

Macbeth

"This supernatural soliciting/ Cannot be ill, cannot be good. If ill,/ Why hath it given me earnest of success/ Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor./ If good, why do I yield to that suggestion/ Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair/ And make my seated heart knock at my ribs"

Banquo

"New honors come upon him,/ Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mold/ But with the aid of use."

Macbeth

"Think upon what hath chanced,/ and at more time,/ The interim having weighted it, let us speak/ Our free hearts each to other."

Duncan

"There's no art/ To find the mind's construction in the face./ He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust."

Duncan

"True, worthy Banquo. He is full so valiant,/ And in his commendations I am fed:/ It is a banquet to me.-- Let's after him,"

Lady Macbeth

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

Lady Macbeth

"Come, you spirits/ That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,/ And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full/ Of direst cruelty."

Lady Macbeth

"Look like th' innocent/ flower;/ But be the serpent under't."

Duncan

"This castle hath a pleasant seat."

Duncan

"Conduct me to mine host. We love him highly/ And shall continue our graces towards him./ By your leave, hostess."

Macbeth

"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well/ If were done quickly. If th' assassination/ Could trammel up the consequence and catch/ With his surcease success,"

Macbeth

"He's here in double trust;/ First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,"

Macbeth

"I have no spur/ To prick the sides of my intent, but only/ Vaulting ambition,"

Macbeth

"We will proceed no further in this business./ He hath honored me of late, and I have bought/ Golden opinions from all sorts of people,/ Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,/ Not cast aside so soon."

Lady Macbeth

"Wouldst thou have that/ Which thou esteem'st the ornament of life/ And live a coward in thine own esteem,/ Letting 'I dare not' wait upon "I would,'/ Like the poor cat i' th' adage?"

Lady Macbeth

"We fail?/ But screw your courage to the sticking place/ And we'll not fail."

Macbeth

"Bring forth men-children only,/ For thy undaunted mettle should compose/ Nothing but males."

Macbeth

"I am settled and bend up/ Each corporal agent to this terrible feat./ Away, and mock the time with fairest show./ False face must hide what the false heart doth/ know."

Banquo

"I dreamt last night of the three Weird Sisters./ To you they have showed some truth."

Lady Macbeth

"Had he not resembled/ My father as he slept, I had done't."

Macbeth

"Sleep no more!"

Macbeth

"I'll go no more./ I am afraid to think what I have done./ Look on 't again I dare not."

Lady Macbeth

"Infirm of purpose!/ Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead/ Are but as pictures."

Macbeth

"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood/ Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather/ The multitudinous seas incarnadine,/ Making the green one red."

Lady Macbeth

"My hands are of your color; but I shame/ To wear a heart so white."

Macbeth

"Wake Duncan with thy knocking. I would thou/ couldst."

Porter

"Knock, knock!/ Never at quiet.-- What are you?-- But this place is/ too cold for hell. I'll devil-porter it no further:"

Porter

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

Lennox

"The night has been unruly. Where we lay,/ Our chimmneys were blown down and, as they say,/ Lamentings heard i' th' air, strange screams of death,"

Lennox

"The obscure bird/ Clamored the livelong night. Some say the Earth/ Was feverous and did shake."

Macduff

"Murder and treason!/ Banquo and Donalbain, Malcolm, awake!/ Shake off this downy sleep, death's counterfeit,/ And look on death itself."

Macbeth

"You are, and do not know't./ The spring, the head, the fountain of your blood/ Is stopped; the very source of it is stopped."

Lennox

"Those of his chamber; as it seemed, had done't./ Their hands and faces were all badged with blood./ So were their daggers, which unwiped we found/ Upon their pillows. They stared and were distracted./ No man's life was to be trusted with them."

Macbeth

"O, yet I do repent me of my fury,/ That I did kill them."

Macbeth

"Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate, and furious,/ Loyal, and neutral, in a moment? No man."

Macbeth

"Here lay Duncan,/ His silver skin laced with his golden blood,/ And his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature/ For ruin's wasteful entrance; there the murders,"

Lady Macbeth

"Help me hence, ho!"

Malcolm

"I'll to England."

Donalbain

"To Ireland I."

Malcolm

"This murderous shaft that's shot/ Hath not yet lighted, and our safest way/ Is to avoid the aim."

Old Man

"'Tis said they eat each/ other."

Macduff

"Carried to Colmekill,/ The sacred storehouse of his predecessors/ And guardian of their bones."

Banquo

"Thou hast it now--king, Cawdor, Glamis, all/ As the Weird Women promised, and I fear/ Thou played'st most foully for't?

Macbeth

"Then, prophet-like,/ They hailed him father to a line of kings./ Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown/ And put a barren scepter in my grip,"

Macbeth

"Know Banquo was your enemy."

Lady Macbeth

"'Tis safer to be that which we destroy/ Than y destruction dwell in doubtful joy."

Macbeth

"Better be with the dead/ Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,"

Macbeth

"O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!"

Macbeth

"Ere the bat hath flown/ His cloistered flight, ere to black Hecate's summons/ The shard-born beetle with his drowsy hums/ Hath rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done/ A deed of dreadful note."

Macbeth

"Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,/ Till thou applaud the deed."

Macbeth

"Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond/ Which keeps me pale."

Banquo

"O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly,fly,fly!/ Thou mayst revenge-- O slave!"

Macbeth

"There's blood upon thy face."

Murderer

"Tis Banquo's then."

Murderer

"Most royal sir, Fleance is 'scaped."

Murderer

"Safe in a ditch he bides,/ With twenty treached gashes on his head,/ The least a death to nature."

Macbeth

"Thanks for that. There the grown serpent lies."

Macbeth

"The table's full."

Lady Macbeth

"Sit, worthy friends. My lord is often thus/ And hath been from his youth. Pray you, keep seat."

Lady Macbeth

"This is the very painting of your fear:/ This is the air-drawn dagger which you said/ Led you to Duncan."

Macbeth

"How say'st thou that Macduff denies his person/ At our great bidding?"

Macbeth

"I am in blood/ Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er."

Lennox

"The gracious/ Duncan/ Was pitied of Macbeth; marry, he was dead./ And the right valiant Banquo walked too late,/ Whom you may say, if't please you, Fleance killed,/ For Fleance fled."

Lord

"And this report/ Hath so exasperate the King that he/ Prepares for some attempt of war."

the Witches

"Double, double toil and trouble;/ Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."

the Witches

"Cool it with a baboon's blood./ Then the charm is firm and good."

the Witches

"By the pricking of my thumbs,/ Something wicked this way comes."

First Apparition

"Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff!/ Beware the Thane of Fife! Dismiss me. Enough."

Second Apparition

"Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn/ The power of man, for none of woman born/ Shall harm Macbeth."

Third Apparition

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

Macbeth

"Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo. Down!/ Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs."

Lady Macduff

"He had none./ His flight was madness. When our actions do not./ Our fears do make us traitors."

Lady Macduff

"Wisdom? To leave his wife, to leave his babes,/ His mansion and his titles in a place/ From whence himself does fly? He loves us not;"

Macduff's son

"If he were dead, you'd weep for him. If you would/ not, it were a good sign that I should quickly have a new father."

Macduff's son

"He has killed/ me, mother./ Run away, I pray you."

Malcolm

"It is myself I mean, in whom I know/ All the particulars of vice so grafted/ That, when they shall be opened, black Macbeth/ Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state/ Esteem him as a lamb, being compared/ With my confineless harms."

Malcom

"But there's no bottom, none,/ In my voluptousness. Your wives, your daughters,/ Your matrons, and your maids could not fill up/ The cistern of my lust, and my desire"

Malcolm

"With this there grows/ In my most ill-composed affection such/ A stanchless avarice that, were I king,/ I should cut off the nobles for their lands,/ Desire his jewels, and this other's house;"

Ross

"Your castle is surprised, your wife and babes/ Savagely slaughtered. To relate the manner/ Were on the quarry of these murdered deer/ To add the death of you."

Macduff

"My children too?"

Ross

"Wife, children, servants, all that could be found."

Macduff

"He has no children. All my pretty ones?/ Did you say 'all'? O hell-kite! All?/ What, all my pretty chickens and their dam/ At one fell swoop?"

Macduff

"Sinful Macduff,/ They were all struck for thee! Naught that I am,/ Not for their own demerits, but for mine,/ Fell slaughter on their souls. Heaven rest them now."

Gentlewoman

"Since his Majesty went into the field, I

have seen her rise from her bed, throw her nightgown

upon her, unlock her closet, take forth paper,

fold it, write upon 't, read it, afterwards seal it, and

again return to bed; yet all this while in a most fast

sleep."

Doctor

" A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep and do the effects of watching. In this slumb'ry agitation, besides her walking and other actual performances, what at any time have you heard her say?"