Duncan Key Quotes

• "There's no art to find the mind's construction in a man's face"

  Duncan, Act 1, Scene 4
• "He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust"

  Duncan, Act 1, Scene 4
• "O worthiest cousin!"


  Duncan, Act 1, Scene 4
• "This castle hath a pleasant seat"

  Duncan, Act 1, Scene 6
• "his virtues will plead like angels ... against the deep damnation of his taking-off"

  Macbeth (about Duncan), Act 1, Scene 7
• "A falcon ... was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd"

  Old man describing how nature had become chaotic on the night of the murder, Act 2, Scene 4
• "And 'tis said that they (Duncan's horses) ate each other"

  Old man describing how nature had become chaotic on the night of the murder, Act 2, Scene 4
• "O sacrilegious murder hath broke ope the lord's anointed temple"

  Macduff (about Duncan's murder), Act 2, Scene 3
• "The royal father was a most sainted king"

  Macduff to Malcolm, Act 4, Scene 3