Edexcel English Literature GCSE - Macbeth Key Quotes
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- Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear things that do sound so fair?
- Fair is foul and foul is fair
- O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!
- Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it.
- I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition.
- To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus.
- What are these so wild and withered in their attire?
- That I may pour spirits in thine ear.
- Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.
- Is this a dagger I see before me?
- Avaunt and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold.
- Is execution done on Cawdor?
- "Th' expedition of my violent love outrun the pauser, reason"
- Let's make medicines of our great revenge, to cure this deadly grief.
- Now I see 'tis true, for the blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me.
- All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!
- Thou shalt get Kings, though thou be none.
- Beware Macduff!
- For none of woman born shall harm Macbeth
- Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him.
- Fortune on his damned quarrel smiling, showed like a rebel's wh**e.
- If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir.
- Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem to have thee crowned withal.
- Rather than so, come fate into the list, and champion me to the utterance.
- Must embrace the fate of that dark hour.
- They say blood will have blood.
- Security is mortals' chiefest enemy.
- Make assurance double sure and take a bond of fate.
- Besides, this Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been so clear in his great office, that his virtues will plead like angels.
- Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.
- This is a sorry sight.
- That calls upon us, by the grace of Grace, we will perform in measure, time and place.
- As cannons overcharged with double cracks, so they double redoubled strokes upon the foe.
- My thought, whose murder yet is fantastical, shakes so my single state of man that function is smothered in surmise.
- He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.
- Look like th' innocent flower, but be the serpent under't.
- O, yet I do repent me of my fury, that I did kill them.
- Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised, and I fear thou play'dst most foully for't.
- Magic sleights shall raise such artificial sprites as by the strength of their illusion shall draw him on to his confusion.
- Black Macbeth will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state esteem as a lamb, being compared with my confineless harms.