macbeth quotes

from school

Fair is foul and foul is fair;/Hover through the fog and filthy air.

Witches

For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name.

Captain about Macbeth

O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman!

Duncan

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

Macbeth opening line

What are these/So withered and so wild in their attire/That look not like th’inhabitants o’th’ earth

Banquo ab witches

You should be women,/And yet your beards forbid me to interpret /That you are so.

Banquo ab witches

All hail Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter!

3rd Witch

Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.

3rd Witch to banquo

Oftentimes, to win us to our harm,/The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

Banquo

(aside) This supernatural soliciting/Cannot be ill, cannot be good.

Macbeth after witches

He was a gentleman on whom I built/An absolute trust.

Duncan about the traitor Cawdor

Stars hide your fires/Let not light see my black and deep desires.

Macbeth

It is a peerless kinsman.

Duncan about Macbeth

I do fear thy nature/It is too full o’th’milk of human kindness/To catch the nearest way.

Lady Macbeth

Thou wouldst be great,/Art not without ambition, but without/The illness should attend it.

Lady Macbeth

Hie thee hither,/That I may pour my spirits in thine ear.

Lady Macbeth

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

Look like th’innocent flower/But be the serpent under’t.

Lady Macbeth

Leave all the rest to me.

Lady Macbeth

If it were done, when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well/It were done quickly.

Macbeth

I have no spur/To prick the sides of my intent, but only/Vaulting ambition.

Macbeth anagnorisis

Screw your courage to the sticking-place, /And we’ll not fail.

Lady Macbeth

Bring forth men-children only,/For thy undaunted mettle should compose/Nothing but males.

Macbeth ab lm

Is this a dagger which I see before me,/The handle toward my hand?

Macbeth

Had he not resembled /My father as he slept, I had done’t.

Lady Macbeth

Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more!/Macbeth does murder sleep’ - the innocent sleep.

Macbeth

Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood/Clean from my hand?

Macbeth

A little water clears us of this deed.

Lady Macbeth

There’s daggers in men’s smiles.

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