Quotes

Act 1 Scene 1

• “Fair is foul and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air” - The witches

Act 1 Scene 2

• “For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name” - Captain

• “Till he unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops and fixed his head upon our battlements” - Captain

• “No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death, and with his former title greet Macbeth” - King Duncan

• “What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won” - King Duncan

Act 1 Scene 3

• “So foul and fair a day I have not seen” - Macbeth

• “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!” - First witch

• “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!” - Second witch

• “All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!” - Third witch

• “Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear things that sound so fair?” - Banquo

• “Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more./Speak, I charge you” - Macbeth

• “The Thane of Cawdor lives; why do you dress me in borrowed robes?” - Macbeth

Act 1 Scene 4

• “More is thy due than more than all can pay” - King Duncan

• “Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter The Prince of Cumberland” - King Duncan

• “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down or else o-erleap, for in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires; the eye wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see” - Macbeth

Act 1 Scene 5

• “My dearest partner of greatness” - Macbeth

• “Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ th’ milk of human-kindness to catch the nearest way” - Lady Macbeth

• “Come, you spirits that tend on moral thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty” - Lady Macbeth

• “Come to my women’s breasts, and talk my milk for gall, you murdering ministers, wherever in your slightest substances you wait on nature’s mischief” - Lady Macbeth

• “O, never shall sun that morrow see” - Lady Macbeth

• “Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t” - Lady Macbeth

Act 1 Scene 7

• “We still have judgement here, that we teach but bloody instructions” - Macbeth

• “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition” - Macbeth

• “We will proceed no further in this business: He hath honoured me of late and I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people” - Macbeth

• “Art thou afeard to be in the same in thine own act and valour as thou art in desire?” - Lady Macbeth

• “When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man” - Lady Macbeth

• “I have given suck and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me — I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, and dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this” - Lady Macbeth

Act 2 Scene 1

• “I think not of them” - Macbeth

• “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not and yet I see thee still” - Macbeth

Act 2 Scene 2

• “Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t” - Lady Macbeth

• “Still it cried ‘Sleep no more’ to all the house: ‘Glamis hath murdered sleep and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more” - Macbeth

• “A little water clears us of this deed” - Lady Macbeth

Act 2 Scene 3

• “Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope the Lord’s anointed temple and stole thence the life o’ the building” - Macduff

• “O gentle lady, ‘tis not for you to hear what I can speak: The repetition, in a woman’s ear, would murder as it fell” - Macduff

Act 3 Scene 1

• “Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised; and I fear, thou play’dst most foully for’t” - Banquo

• “And with him - to leave no rubs nor botches in the work - Fleance, his son, that keeps him company, whose absence is no less material to me than is his father’s, must embrace the fate of that dark hour” - Macbeth

Act 3 Scene 2

• “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck” - Macbeth

Act 3 Scene 4

• “There the grown serpent lies; the worm that’s fled hath nature that in time will venom breed, no teeth for th’ present” - Macbeth

• “Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me” - Macbeth

• “Sit worthy friends. My lord is often thus, and hath been from his youth.” - Lady Macbeth

• “Fie, for shame!” - Lady Macbeth

Act 3 Scene 6

• “Our suffering country under a hand accursed” - Lennox

Act 4 Scene 1

• “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff; Beware the Thane of Fife. Dismiss me. Enough” - Witches

• “For none of woman born shall harm Macbeth” - Witches

• “Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him” - Witches

• “That will never be: Who can impress the forest, bid the tree unfix his earth-bound root? Sweet bodements! Good!” - Macbeth

• “The castle of Macduff I will survive, seize upon Fife, give to th’ edge o’ th’ sword His wife, his babes and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line” - Macbeth

Act 4 Scene 3

• “But fear not yet to take upon you what is yours” - Macduff

• “Sinful Macduff, they were all struck for thee!” - Macduff

Act 5 Scene 1

• “Out damned spot! Out I say” - Lady Macbeth

• “Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood left in him?” - Lady Macbeth

• “Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” - Lady Macbeth

• “To bed, to bed: there’s knocking at the gate” - Lady Macbeth

Act 5 Scene 3

• “I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked. Give me my armour” - Macbeth

Act 5 Scene 5

• “She should have died hereafter; There would have been time for such a word. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow” - Macbeth

Act 5 Scene 7

• “Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped” - Macduff

• “I will not yield to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet” - Macbeth

• “Thou Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane, and thou opposed being of no woman born, yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on Macduff, and damned be him that first cried ‘Hold, enough!’ “ - Macbeth