MACBETH QUOTES

brave…

“brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name” (Sergeant)

valour’s…

“valour’s minion” (Sergeant)

O…

“O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!” (Duncan)

lost, noble, won…

“What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won”

why do I yield…

“Why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs.”

whose murder…

“Whose murder is yet but fantastical shakes so my single state of man.”

o’erleap

“The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap for in my way it lies.”

stars hide…

“Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires.”

yet do i fear…

“Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.”

Art not without

“Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it.”

look like…

“Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it.”

jump the life

“If the assassination could trammel up the consequence…. we’d jump the life to come.”

no spur…

“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent.”

vaulting ambition

“But only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other.”

do more is none…

“I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none.”

false face…

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”