Macbeth Quotes

Macbeth Quotes

1. Gender

   • you'd be so much more the man
   • had plucked my nipple and dashed its brains out
   • coward
   • unsex me here
   • as I so sworn
   • we will speak further-

2. Supernatural

   • fair is foul and foul is fair
   • secret black and midnight hags
   • a dagger of the mind, a false creation
   • So fair and foul a day I have not seen
   • Speak you imperfect creatures

3. Good and Evil

   • I fear thy nature
   • black and deep desires
   • brave macbeth
   • noble macbeth
   • is Banquo safe
   • fiend like
   • full of human kindness
   • pour my spirits in thine ear
   • that my keen knife see not the wound it makes

4. Guilt

   • a little water will clean us of this deed
   • never shake thy glory locks at me
   • out damned spot
   • and on thy blade and dungeon gouts of blood
   • All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand

5. Ambition/Power/Authority

   • tyrant
   • innocent of the knowledge
   • we will proceed no further in this business
   • vaulting ambition
   • give solely sovereign suray and masterdom
   • Each new day a gash added to her wounds

6. Trust/Betrayal

   • look like the innocent flower but be the serpent underneath
   • innocent of the knowledge
   • I have done the deed
   • a foolish thought
   • consider it not so deeply

7. Violence/Cruelty/Brutality

   • unseamed him from the nave to the chaps
   • blood will have blood
   • marked with blood
   • fixed his head upon the battlements
   • dead butcher

8. Order and Disorder

   • a falcon tow'ring in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawk'd and killed
   • answer me
   • illness should attend it
   • take my milk for gall
   • that tears should drown the wind