Macbeth Quotes (Leaving Cert)

"Fair is ... (TWS)

...foul and foul is fair."

Macbeth's Bravery, described by the King and army sergeants Act 1

"brave Macbeth", "Bellona's bridegroom", "noble Macbeth".

"unseamed him... -Sergeant Act 1

...from the knave to the chaps and fixed his head upon our battlements."

"why do...(Banquo)

...you start and seem to fear things that do sound so fair?"

"why do...(Macbeth)

...you dress me in borrowed robes?"

"and oftentimes...(Banquo)

...to win us to our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths...to betray us in deepest consequence."

"if good,...(Macbeth)

why do I yield to that suggestion?"

"and make...(Macbeth)

...my seated heart knock against my ribs."

"shakes...(Macbeth)

...so my single state of man."

"Why if...(Macbeth)

...chance would have me King, then chance crown may me, without my stir."

"there's no...(Duncan)

...to find the mind's construction in the face."

"that is a...(Macbeth)

...step on which I must fall down or else o'er leap for in my way it lies"

"stars hide...(Macbeth)

your fires, let not light see my dark and deep desires."

"leave...(Lady M)

...all the rest to me."

"yet I do...(Lady M)

...fear his nature is too full of the milk of human kindness."

"look like...(Lady M)

...the innocent flower but be the serpent underneath"

"we will...(Macbeth)

...proceed no further with this business."

"If we should fail?"(Macbeth)

"Then we fail! But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail."

"he's here...(Macbeth)

...in double trust"

"I have no...(Macbeth)

...spur to prick the sides of my intent only vaulting ambition"

"when you...(Lady M)

...durst do it then you were a man."

"I would...have...(Lady M)

...plucked the nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out."

"I am settled...(Macbeth)

...and bend each corporal agent to this terrible feat."

"false face...(Macbeth)

...must hide what false heart doth know."

"Is this...(Macbeth)

...a dagger I see before me, handle towards my hand?"

"hear it...(Macbeth)

...Duncan; for it is a knell, that summons thee to heaven or to hell."

"That which...(Lady M)

...hath made them drunk hath made me bold."

"had he ...(Lady M)

...not resembled my Father as he lay there I had done it."

"This is a sorry sight" (Macbeth)

"A foolish thought to say a sorry sight."

"a little...(Lady M)

...water clears us of this deed."

"'tis the eye...(Lady M)

...of childhood that fears a painted devil."

"wake Duncan...(Macbeth)

...with thy knocking! I would thou could'st."

"The Lord's...(Macduff)

...anointed temple."

"Macbeth...(Macbeth)

... doth murder sleep."

"sleep that...(Macbeth)

...knits up the ravelled sleeve of care."

"I fear...(Banquo)

...thou play'st most foully for it."

"to be thus...(Macbeth)

...is nothing, but to be safely thus."

"For Banquo's...(Macbeth)

...issue I have filed my mind."

"nought's had,...(Lady M)

...all's spent, where desire is got without content."

"be innocent...(Macbeth)

...of the knowledge dearest chuck."

"We have scotched...(Macbeth)

...the snake not killed it."

"Oh full of...(Macbeth)

...scorpions is my mind dear wife."

"thou art...(Macbeth)

...the best of the cut-throats."

"blood...(Macbeth)

...will have blood."

"I am in blood...(Macbeth)

...stepped in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er."

"there's not a one of...(Macbeth)

...but in his house I keep a servant fee'd."

"Security...(Hecate)

...is mortal's chiefest enemy."

"Beware...(TWS)

...Macduff."

"for none...(TWS)

...of woman born shall harm Macbeth."

"Macbeth shall never...(TWS)

...vanquished be until great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him."

"from this moment...(Macbeth)

...the very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand."

"each new morn...(Malcolm)

...new widows howl, new orphans cry."

"this tyrant...(Malcolm)

...whose sole name blisters our tongues."

"fit to...(Macduff)

...govern, no not to live."

"Unnatural deeds...(Doctor)

do breed unnatural troubles."

"Out...(Lady M)

...damned spot!"

"all the perfumes...(Lady M)

...of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."

"what's done...(Lady M)

...cannot be undone."

"now does he feel...(Angus)

...his title hand loose around him like a giant's robe upon a dwarfish thief."

"I have lived...(Macbeth)

...long enough, my way of life is fallen into the sere the yellow leaf."

"I have supped...(Macbeth)

...fulled with horrors."

"and that which should...(Macbeth)

accompany old age as honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have."

"I'll fight till...(Macbeth)

from my bones my flesh be hacked."

"I have almost...(Macbeth)

...forgotten the taste of fears ."

"Tomorrow, and tomorrow...(Macbeth)

...and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day, until the last syllable of recorded time."

"out, out brief candle...(Macbeth)

...life's but a walking shadow."

"a tale told...(Macbeth)

...by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing."

"my soul is...(Macbeth)

...too much charged with blood of thine already."

"Macduff was...(Macduff)

...from his mother's womb untimely ripped."

"juggling...(Macbeth)

...fiends."

"this dead...(Malcolm)

...butcher and his fiend-like queen."