Macbeth, Macbeth, Macbeth.

Shakespeare's Macbeth quote memorisation

Duncan Grave

“Duncan is in his grave… After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well… Nothing can touch him futher.”

Perfumes

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

daggers, smiles

“There’s daggers in men’s smiles.”

bell

“Hear it not Duncan, for it is a knell… That summons thee to heaven, or to hell.”

thus, safe

“To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus.”

Neptune

“Will all Great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”

spot

“Yet here’s a spot… Out damned spot, out i say.”

washing hands

“It is an accustomed act with her, to seem thus washing her hands… I have known her continue this a quarter of an hour.”

spur

“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other.”

nature, milk

“Yet do I fear thy nature… It is too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.”

light, command

“She has light by her continually… Tis her command.”

durst, man

“When you durst do it, then you were the man.”

fair, foul, witches

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair… hover through the fog and filthy air.”

Fair, foul, macbeth

“Such a foul and fair day i have not seen.”

instruments

“The instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.”

tomorrow

“Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death… Out, out, brief candle.”

woman born

“Be bloody, bold and resolute… Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.”

Birnam wood

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

mind, face

“There's no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.”

Duncan blood

“Here lay Duncan, his silver skin laced with his golden blood.”

pricking

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

flower, serpent

“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent underneath.”

dagger, handle

“Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle toward my hand… Come, let me clutch thee.”

service, loyalty

"The service and the loyalty I owe, in doing it, pays itself."