Good vs evil

• ...and I fear thou play'dst most folly for it.


  (Banquo soliloquy) Banquo admits he has suspicious Macbeth was the murderer of Duncan.
• It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul's flight, if it find heaven, must find it out tonight.


  (Macbeth soliloquy) Macbeth has successfully arranged Banquo's death.
• Things without all remedy should be without regard; what's done is done.


  (Lady Macbeth to Macbeth) She wants him to be happy and move on because there is no way to change what has happened.
• Things bad begun make themselves strong by ill.


  (Macbeth to Lady Macbeth) The only way to make this right is by continuing to attack.
• Thou canst not say that I did it; never shake thy gory locks at me


  (Macbeth to Ghost of Banquo) Macbeth claims that his use of the murderers makes him not guilty. He tells the ghost to leave.
• Do not muse at me, my most worthy friends, I have a strange infirmity which is nothing to those that know me.

  (Macbeth to lords) Macbeth adopts Lady Macbeth's idea that the reason for his strange outbursts is a disease.
• I am in blood stepped so far that, should I wade no more, returning were so tedious as go o'er.


  (Macbeth to Lady Macbeth) He is in too deep. Just as much effort is required to fight than to surrender.
• We are but young indeed.


  (Macbeth to Lady Macbeth) Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that they are just beginners in crime/sin and must continue.
• Some holy angel fly to the court of England and unfold his message ere he come.

  (Lennox to lord) Macduff has gone to England to get troops for overthrowing Macbeth.
• You lack the season of all natures, sleep.


  (Lady Macbeth to Macbeth) Because of your use of violence you are not able to sleep.
• There's husbandry in heaven; their candles are all out.


  (Banquo to Fleance) This time is very dark and something bad is going to happen.
• Is this a dagger I see before me, the handle toward my hand?


  (Macbeth soliloquy) Sees a hallucination of dagger, but grabs it and goes to kill Duncan.
• Has he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done it.


  (Lady Macbeth to Macbeth) This is why Lady Macbeth couldn't kill Duncan herself. First time we see her "soft side."
• Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.

  (Macbeth to Lady Macbeth) Macbeth won't be able to sleep anymore because of what he has done.
• I'll go no more; I am afraid to think what I have done; Look on't again I dare not.


  (Macbeth to Lady Macbeth) Lady Macbeth asked Macbeth to go wipe blood onto the grooms. He can't bring himself to terms to what he just did.
• Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand.


  (Macbeth to Lady Macbeth) Macbeth feels like nothing in the world could ever rid him of the guilt of killing Duncan.
• A little water clears us of this deed. How easy it is, then.


  (Lady Macbeth to Macbeth) Lady Macbeth finds the guilt easy to get rid of.
• Wake Duncan with thy knocking; I would though couldst.

  (Macbeth to knocking at the door) Macbeth expresses guilt for this action and regrets killing Duncan.
• Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time.

  (Macbeth to Lennox, Donalbain, Lady Macbeth, Macduff, Ross, and Banquo) He wants others to think he is innocent.
• From this instant there's nothing serious in morality.

  (Macbeth to Lennox, Donalbain, Lady Macbeth, Macduff, Ross, and Banquo) No longer wants to live because Duncan is dead.
• To show an unfelt sorry is an office which the false man does easy.

  (Malcolm to Donalbain) Malcolm doesn't trust the other men and suspects their pity is just a show.
• There's daggers in men's smiles; the near blood, the nearer bloody.

  (Donalbain to Malcolm) Donalbain says the closer they are, the more horrible foes they can become.
• To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself.

  (Macbeth to Lady Macbeth) Macbeth says he would rather not know about his crime yet it is a part of him.
• My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white.

  (Lady Macbeth to Macbeth) Lady Macbeth says that she has finished the plan but is not ashamed or afraid like her husband.
• Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.

  (Macbeth to self/bell ringing) Macbeth does not want Duncan to hear the bell and wake up for he is about to kill him.
• I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: To you they have show'd some truth.

  (Banquo to Macbeth) Banquo admits he thinks of the Witches and their words since they rightly predicted Macbeth's new title.
• (Witches to general audience) No real rules; anything goes

  Fair is foul and foul is fair.
• (Duncan to Ross) The Thane of Cawdor was a traitor to Scotland and will be killed for it, where his land will be given to Macbeth.


  No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death.
• (Witch 1 to the other witches) The witches can torture and play with fate, but they cannot kill people.

  Though his bark cannot be lost, yet it can be tempest tossed.
• (Macbeth to Banquo) Echos the first words said by the witches. It is a fair day because they have one, but it is a foul day due to weather and all the deaths. It is more doublespeak.

  So fair and foul a day I have not seen.
• (Witches to Macbeth) After Macbeth is thane of both Glamis and Cawdor, he will end up king of Scotland.


  All hail Macbeth, that shall be king hereafter!
• (Banquo to Witches) Banquo wants his fortune told too. He has disdain for the witches but wants to know. He is a good foil for Macbeth. When Macbeth gets a good prediction, he becomes ruthless. Banquo stays loyal and dies.

  If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me.
• (Witches to Banquo) His sons may be kings, but he will not be one.

  Thou shalt get Kings, though thou be none.
• (Banquo to Macbeth) Banquo is developing suspicion of the witches' fortunes and thinks perhaps they should not be heeded. The witches are classified as dark beings, not just supernatural ones.

  But 'tis strange; and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us in deepest consequence.
• (Malcolm to Duncan) Talking about traitorous Thane of Cawdor. The best thing he ever did was die repenting and not putting up a fight.


  Nothing in his life became like him leaving it.
• (Duncan to Malcolm) It is impossible to tell a person's true thoughts. There is no way to tell if somebody is merely a good actor. This is ironic since the Thane of Cawdor and Macbeth both managed to fool Duncan.


  There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
• (Duncan to Macbeth) Duncan claims credit for Macbeth's success and wants to make sure he stays successful.

  I have begun to plant thee, and will labor to make thee full of growing.
• (Macbeth to stars) Macbeth, despite Duncan's kindness, wants to murder his way to the throne.

  Stars, hide your fires: Let not lights see my black and deep desires.
• (Lady Macbeth soliloquy) She thinks Macbeth is too kind to be king. He doesn't have the killer instinct to get to the top.

  Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full of the milk of human kindness.
• (Lady Macbeth soliloquy) Asks the spirits to dehumanize or dewomanize her. She wants to be free of any sympathy or weakness.

  Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.