Macbeth Quotes

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

Witches

Act One Scene One

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

Macbeth

Act One Scene Four

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“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

Act One Scene Five

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“When thou durst do it, then you were a man”

Lady Macbeth

Act One Scene Seven

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

Macbeth

Act One Scene Seven

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

Macbeth

Act Two Scene Two

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“I am in blood, steeped in so far, that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er”

Macbeth

Act Three Scene Four

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

Lady Macbeth

Act Five Scene One

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9

“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow”

Macbeth

Act Five Scene Two

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“When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”

“When the hurly-burly’s done, \n When the battle’s lost and won.”

Witches

Act One Scene One

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

Witches

Act Four Scene One

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12

“Double double toil and trouble”

Witches

Act Four Scene One

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13

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

Macbeth (to Banquo)

Act One Scene Three

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

Lady Macbeth

Act One Scene Five

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

Donalbain (to Malcolm)

Act Two Scene Three

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“Things without all remedy / Should be without regard: What’s done is done.”

Lady Macbeth

Act Three Scene Two

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“Look like the innocent flower / But be the serpent under’t”

Lady Macbeth

Act One Scene Five

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18

“A little water clears us of this deed.”

Lady Macbeth

Act Two Scene Two

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“Brave Macbeth / disdaining fortune / smoked with bloody execution.”

Captain

Act One Scene Two

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20

“none of woman born should harm Macbeth”

Witches

Act Four Scene One

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21

“O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!”

Duncan (About Macbeth)

Act One Scene One

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“But signs of nobleness like stars shall shine on all deservers.”

Duncan

Act One Scene Four

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“Are ye fantastical, or that indeed which outwardly ye show?”

Banquo

Act One Scene Three

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“I fear, thou played'st most foully for't”

Banquo (About Macbeth)

Act Three Scene One

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