Macbeth quotes revision

Act 1, Scene 1: The Witches’ Opening

  1. "When shall we three meet again / In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"

  2. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair."


Act 1, Scene 2: Macbeth's Valor

  1. "For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name—"

  2. "No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive / Our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death."


Act 1, Scene 3: The Witches' Prophecies

  1. "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! / All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! / All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!"

  2. "If you can look into the seeds of time, / And say which grain will grow and which will not, / Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear / Your favors nor your hate."


Act 1, Scene 5: Lady Macbeth's Ambition

  1. "Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe topful / Of direst cruelty!"

  2. "Look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under’t."


Act 1, Scene 7: Macbeth’s Soliloquy

  1. "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well / It were done quickly."

  2. "I am settled, and bend up / Each corporal agent to this terrible feat."


Act 2, Scene 2: Lady Macbeth and Macbeth After the Murder

  1. "I have done the deed. Didst thou not hear a noise?"

  2. "A little water clears us of this deed."


Act 2, Scene 3: Discovery of Duncan's Murder

  1. "O, yet I do repent me of my fury, / That I did kill them."

  2. "Where we are, / There's daggers in men's smiles."


Act 3, Scene 1: Macbeth’s Paranoia

  1. "To be thus is nothing; / But to be safely thus."

  2. "We have scorched the snake, not killed it."


Act 3, Scene 2: Lady Macbeth's Concerns

  1. "Nought's had, all's spent, / Where our desire is got without content."

  2. "Things without all remedy / Should be without regard: what's done is done."


Act 4, Scene 1: The Apparitions

  1. "None of woman born shall harm Macbeth."

  2. "By the pricking of my thumbs, / Something wicked this way comes."


Act 4, Scene 3: Malcolm and Macduff

  1. "O Scotland, Scotland!"

  2. "Macduff was from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripped."