Macbeth Quotes

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A selection of good quotes from Macbeth for A2 Literature
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What is Macbeth's first line? What does it suggest about th relationship between Mabeth and the witches? "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" - this repeats the witches words "fair and foul and foul is fair". this could suggest that the witched have control over Macbeth.
"The battlefield: ..." "The battlefield: thunder and lightning"
"Heath ..." "Heath near Forres"
"Multiplying ..." "Multiplying villanies of nature do swarm upon him"
"Bathe in ..." "Bathe in reeking wounds"
"Iver...." "Iverness"
"Macbeth's c....." "Macbeth's castle"
"This castle ..." "This castle hath a pleasant seat"
"Bearing a ..." "Bearing a torch before him"
"You know ..." "You know your own degrees"
"Stand not upon ..." "Stand not upon the order of your going | But go at once"
"Dun......" "Dunsinane"
"I feel now ..." "I feel now the future in an instant"
"Confident ..." "Confident tyrant"
"Dwarfish ..." "Dwarfish thief"
"Abhorred ..." "Abhorred tyrant"
"Bloodier ..." "Bloodier villain"
"Hell..." "Hellhound"
"Dead ..." "Dead Butcher"
"Memorize ..." "Memorise another Golgotha"
"I 'gin ..." "I 'gin to be aweary of the sun"
"Fill me ..." "Fill me from the crown to the toe topfull | Of direst cruelty"
"Come, thick night, | ..." "Come, thick night, | And pall me in the dunnest smoke of Hell"
"Not in the ..." "Not in the legions | Of horrid Hell can come a Devil more damn'd | In evils to top Macbeth"
"She should ..." "She should have died hereafter"
"I could not ..." "I could not say 'Amen'"
"Life's but a walking ..." "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player | That struts and frets his hour upon the stage | And then is heard no more. It is a tale | Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury | Signifying nothing."
"Nor Heaven ... "Nor Heaven peep through the blanket of the dark"
"Come, you spirits ... ..." "Come, you spirits ... unsex me here"
Three Promises "Thane of Glamis ... Thane of Cawdor ... Thou shalt be king hereafter"
"Stay, ..." "Stay, you imperfect speakers"
"So I lose ..." "So I lose none in seeking to augment it"
"Tarquin's ..." "Tarquin's ravishing strides"
"'Twas a ..." "'Twas a rough night"
"A dagger ... " "A dagger of the mind, a false creation"
"How tender ..." "How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: | I would, while it was smiling in my face, | Have pluck'd my nipple from it's boneless gums | And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn | As you had done to this"
"Hear it ..." "Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell |That summons thee to Heaven or to Hell"
"Nose ..." "Nose painting, sleep and urine"
"Our royal ..." "Our royal master's murdered"
"There's daggers ..." "There's daggers in men's smiles"
"First Murd...." "First Murderer strikes out the light"
"Enter Macduff ..." "Enter Macduff, with Macbeth's head"
"Gory ..." "Gory locks"
"You should be ..." "You should be women, | And yet your beards forbid me to interpret | That you are so."
"At least we'll ..." "At least we'll die with harness on our back"
"Like Valour's ..." "Like Valour's minion carv'd out his passage"
"i will not be afraid of ..." "I will not be afraid of death and bane till Birnham Forest come to Dunsinane"
"Cannons ..." "Cannons o'er chag'd with double cracks"
"Give to th'edge ..." "Give to th'edge of the sword his wife, his babes"
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