Macbeth Quotes

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

Witches

Act One Scene One

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

Macbeth

Act One Scene Four

“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

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

Lady Macbeth

Act One Scene Seven

“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

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

Macbeth

Act Two Scene Two

“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

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

Lady Macbeth

Act Five Scene One

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

Macbeth

Act Five Scene Two

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

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

Witches

Act One Scene One

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

Witches

Act Four Scene One

“Double double toil and trouble”

Witches

Act Four Scene One

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

Macbeth (to Banquo)

Act One Scene Three

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

Lady Macbeth

Act One Scene Five

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

Donalbain (to Malcolm)

Act Two Scene Three

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

Lady Macbeth

Act Three Scene Two

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

Lady Macbeth

Act One Scene Five

“A little water clears us of this deed.”

Lady Macbeth

Act Two Scene Two

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

Captain

Act One Scene Two

“none of woman born should harm Macbeth”

Witches

Act Four Scene One

“O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!”

Duncan (About Macbeth)

Act One Scene One

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

Duncan

Act One Scene Four

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

Banquo

Act One Scene Three

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

Banquo (About Macbeth)

Act Three Scene One