quotes

• “brave macbeth” - captain (act 1 scene 2)
• “he unseamed him from the nave to the chops and fixed his head upon our battlements“ - captain (act 1 scene 2)
• “o valiant cousin, worthy gentleman” - duncan (act 1 scene 2)
• “why do you start and seem to fear things that do sound so fair?” - banquo to macbeth (act 1, scene 3)
• “if good, why do i yield to the suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair?” - macbeth (act 1 scene 3)
• “those that gave the thane of cawdor to me” - macbeth about the witches (act 1 scene 3)
• “he hath honoured me of late” - macbeth (act 1 scene 7)
• “as his host, who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself” - macbeth (act 1 scene 7)
• “i have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition” - macbeth
• “stars, hide your fires. let not light see my black and deep desires.” - macbeth (act 1 scene 4)
• “but wherefore could i not pronounce amen” - macbeth (act 2 scene 3)
• “me thought i heard a voice cry, ‘sleep no more macbeth does murder sleep’.” - macbeth
• “i am afraid to think what i have done. look on’t again i dare not” - macbeth (act 2 scene 2)
• “mine eternal jewel given to the common enemy of man” - macbeth (act 3 scene 1)
• “for them the gracious duncan i have murdered” - macbeth about his future children (act 3 scene 1)
• “i will not yield to kiss the ground before young malcolm’s feet” - macbeth (act 5 scene 10)
• “neither beg nor fear your favours nor your remorse“ - banquo to the witches (act 1 scene 3)
• banquo refers to macbeth as “noble partner”
• “why do you start” - banquo to macbeth (act 1 scene 3)
• “a hand accursed” - lennox (act 3 scene 6)
• “tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues” - malcolm about macbeth (act 4 scene 3)
• “dead butcher” - malcolm about macbeth (act 5 scene 9)
• macbeth refers to lady macbeth as “my dearest love” in act 1 scene 5
• “she should have died hereafter” - macbeth about lady macbeth’s death (act 5 scene 5)
• “a wayward son, spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do, loves for his own ends, not for you” -hecate about macbeth to the witches (act 3 scene 5)
• “when you durst do it, then you were a man” - lady macbeth (act 1, scene 7)
• ”now he does feel his title hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief” - angus (act 5, scene 2)
• ”she has light by her continually“ - about lady macbeth (act 5 scene 1)
• ”his virtues will plead like angels” - macbeth about duncan (act 1 scene 7)
• ”my hands are of your colour, but i shame to wear a heart so white” - lady macbeth (act 2 scene 2)
• ”but wherefore could i not pronounce amen?” - macbeth (act 2 scene 2)
• ”i had most need of blessing, and amen stuck in my throat” - macbeth (act 2 scene 2)
• ”disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution” - captain about macbeth (act 1 scene 2)
• “stay you imperfect speakers. tell me more.” - macbeth (act 1 scene 3)
• ”the eye wink at the hand; yet that be,

  which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.” - macbeth (act 1 scene 4)
• ”stars, hide your fires. let not light see my black and deep desires“ - macbeth (act 1 scene 4)
• ”i have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition” - macbeth (act 1 scene 7)
• ”false face must hide what false heart doth know” - macbeth (act 1 scene 7)
• ”is this a dagger which i see before me,

  the handle toward my hand?” - macbeth (act 2 scene 1)
• ”sleep no more! macbeth doth murder sleep” - macbeth (act 2 scene 2)