Macbeth Quotes

Macbeth Quotes

1. Macbeth

   • "stay you imperfect speakers. Tell me more"
   • "stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires"
   • "is this a dagger I see before me?"
   • "sleep no more. Macbeth does murder sleep"
   • "for Banquo's issue have I filed my mind"
   • "I bear a charmed life"
   • "I will not yield, to kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet"

2. Lady Macbeth

   • "I fear thy nature is too full o'th'milk of human kindness"
   • "come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here"
   • "look like th'innocent flower but be the serpent under't'
   • "when you durst do it, then you were a man"
   • "I pray you speak not, he grows worse and worse"
   • "here's the smell of the blood still"

3. Banquo

   • "the instruments of darkness tell us truths"
   • "I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters - to you they have showed some truth"
   • "King, Cawdor, Glamis... I fear thou play'd most foully for't'"
   • "O, treachery! Fly Fleance"

4. The Witches

   • "fair is foul, and foul is fair"
   • "a drum, a drum! Macbeth doth come"
   • "all hail Macbeth that shalt be king hereafter!"
   • "something wicked this way comes"
   • "beware MacDuff"
   • "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth"

5. Malcolm

   • "I'll to England"
   • "our country sinks... it weeps, it bleeds"
   • "devilish Macbeth"
   • " dispute it like a man"
   • "dead butcher and his fiend-like queen"

6. Macduff

   • "ring the alarum bell! Murder and treason"
   • "bleed, bleed, poor country"
   • "they royal father was a most sainted king"
   • "all? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop"
   • "Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped"

7. King Duncan

   • "O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!"
   • "pronounce his present death and with his former title greet Macbeth"
   • "we will establish our estate upon our eldest, Malcolm"

8. Others

   • "for brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name"
   • "so foul and fair a day I have not seen"
   • "Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player"