Quotes

• Act One Scene One:

  "When shall we three meet again

  In thunder, lightening or in rain?" - witches

  "Fair is foul and foul is fair:

  Hover through the fog and filthy air"
• Key quotes for A1 S2:

  "Till he unseam'd him from the nave to the chaps,

  And fix'd his head upon our battlements" -Captain

  "O valiant cousin! worthy gentleman!" - Duncan
• Key quotes from A1 S3:

  "All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!" - first witch

  "All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!" - second witch

  "All hail, Macbeth! thou shalt be king hereafter!" - third witch

  "Lesser than Macbeth, and greater" - first witch

  "Not so happy, yet much happier" - second witch

  "Thou shalt be kings, though thou be none:

  So all hail Macbeth and Banquo"
• KEY QUOTE:

  "Stars, hide your fires

  Let not light see my black and deep desires" - Macbeth
• Key quote:

  "The eye winks at the hand"
• Key quote:

  "Come, you spirts

  That tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here,

  And fill me from the crown to the toe, top full Of direst cruelty" - Lady Macbeth
• Key quote:

  "look like the innocent flower,

  But be the serpent under it" - Lady Macbeth
• Quotes to show Duncan respects Macbeth

  "O worthiest cousin"

  "Let me unfold thee and hold thee to my heart"
• Quotes to show Macbeth respects Duncan

  "The service and loyalty I owe"

  "So humbly take my tears"
• Quotes that hint to the gunpowder plot

  "Is execution done on Cawdor"

  "the minds construction in the face. he was a gentleman on whom i built and absolute trust
• "None of women born shall harm Macbeth" - Lady Macbeth
• "Macbeth shall never vanquished be till Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him"
• "I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on th' other"
• "Come you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty"
• "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble."
• "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand"
• "Look like the innocent flower But be the serpent under it"
• "Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hands? No, this my hand will rather "
• But float upon a wild and violent sea
• The raven himself is hoarse that croaks out this tale"
• "This tyrant whose sole name blisters our tongue" - Macbeth
• " "You see her eyes are open" -Doctor

  "Ay but their sense is shut" -Gentlewomen" "
• 'Tis strange And oftentimes to win us to our harm The instruments of darkness tell us truths Win us with honest trifles to betray's In deepest consequence."
• "Banquo's buried he cannot come out of it grave" -Lady Macbeth
• "What's done cannot be undone" -Lady Macbeth
• "I have given my wife all the comfort she desires, and more than any woman deserves" -Macbeth
• "Unnatural deed do breed unnatural troubles" -Doctor
• "look how she rubs her hands"

  "It is an accustomed action with her to seem thus washing her hands"

  "What will these hand ne'er be clean?"
• "To bed to bed"

  "Come, come, come, come"
• "Meet the medicine of the sickly weal"
• "To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds"
• "His secret murders sticking on his hands" -Lady Macbeth
• "The night has been unruly" -Malcolm
• "Thou canst not say i did it nor thou sawest me when i did it" -Macbeth
• "I have given my two eyes to thine ambition" -Banquo
• "She should have died hereafter"
• "Out out brief candle! // Life's but a walking shadow"
• " a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"
• "Sleep no more / Macbeth does murder sleep
• "I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd bound in / to saucy doubts and fears"