Macbeth Quotations: Act 2 and 3

Macbeth Quotations: Act 2 and 3

1. Banquo

   • "I fear, Thou play'dst most foully for't" (3,1)

2. Macbeth

   • "If you shall cleave to my consent, when 'tis, It shall make honour for you." (2,1)
   • "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?" (2,1)
   • "This is a sorry sight." (2,2)
   • "Look on't again I dare not." (2,2)
   • "Macbeth shall sleep no more." (2,2)
   • "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas in incarnadine, Making the green one red." (2,2)
   • "chief guest." (3,1) [to Banquo]
   • "We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it:" (3,2)
   • "O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!" (3,2)
   • "Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed." (3,2)

3. Lady Macbeth

   • "Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't." (2,2)
   • "A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight." (2,2)
   • "A little water clears us of this deed:" (2,2)

4. Macduff

   • "O horror, horror, horror! Tongue nor heart Cannot conceive nor name thee!" (2,3)