Macbeth Quotes

Macbeth Quotes

1. Macbeth

   • AMBITION
     • "only Vaulting ambition which o'releaps itself" Act 1 Scene 7
     • "i go, and it is done" Act 2 scene 1
     • "yet i will try the last" Act 5 scene 8
     • "thou wast born of woman" act 5 scene 7 (thinks hes invincible)
   • MADNESS
     • "is this the dagger i see before me" Act 2 scene 1
     • "a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?" Act 2 scene 1
     • "sleep no more" act 2 scene 2
     • "Cream-faced loon" act 5 scene 3
     • "shake thy gory locks at me" act 3 scene 4 (B ghost)
   • "for brave Macbeth" -Captain
   • GUILT
     • "this is a sorry sight" act 2 scene 2
     • "macbeth shall sleep no more" act 2 scene 2
     • "Duncan is in his grave" act 3 scene 2
     • "will all great neptunes ocean was this blood clean from my hand?"
     • "hangmans hands" Act 2 scene 2
     • sees B ghost
   • "enter Macduff with Macbeth's head" act 5 scene 9

2. Lady Macbeth

   • AMBITION
     • "thou wouldst be great are not without ambition" Act 1 Scene 5
     • "unsex me here"
     • "leave all rest to me" Act 1 scene 5
     • "we'll not fail" Act 1 scene 7
     • "a little water clears us of this deed" act 2 scene 2
   • MANIPULATION
     • "may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valor of my tongue" act 1 scene 5
     • "look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't"
     • "it is too full o'the milk of human kindness" act 1 scene 5
     • "be so much more the man" Act 1 scene 7
     • "are you a man?" act 3 scene 4
     • "art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it" act1 scene 5
   • MADNESS
     • "it will make us mad" act 2 scene 2
     • "out, damned spot! out, i say!" act 5 scene 1
     • "what will these hands ne'er be clean?" act 5 scene 1
   • NO GUILT
     • "what's done is done" act 3 scene 2
     • "a little water clears us of this deed" act 3 scene 2

3. SUPERNATURAL

   • "come thick night" LM
     • "come you spirits" LM
   • witches quotes ^
   • "shake thy gory locks at me" M
   • "is this a dagger i see before me" M
   • "out, damned spot, out i say" LM (hallucinating)
   • "this supernatural soliciting cannot be ill; cannot be good" M
   • "the instruments of darkness tell us truths" B (wary of witches)

4. RELIGIOUS

   • "i could not say 'Amen'" M act 2 scene 2
   • chain of being / divine order

5. Witches

   • "Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble"
   • "all hail, macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter"
   • "beware macduff! beware the thane of fife!"
   • "none of women born Shall harm Macbeth"
   • "until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill"
   • "fair is foul and foul is fair"

6. Banquo

   • "the instruments of darkness tell us truth" (wicthes)