Macbeth key quotes

• Fair is foul, and foul is fair
• Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t.

  Act I, scene 5
• I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition,

  Act I, scene 7
• Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness

  Act I, scene 5
• Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?

  Act II, scene 3
• Here lay Duncan, his silver skin laced with his golden blood, and his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature for ruin’s wasteful entrance.

  Act II, scene 3
• O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!

  Act III, scene 2
• I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.

  Act IV, scene 3
• Out, out, brief candle. Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage, and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.

  Act V, scene 5
• “When you durst do it, then you were a man” Lady Macbeth, Act I, Scene VII
• Life [...] is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”Macbeth, Act V, Scene V
• “Come, thick night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of Hell [...] nor Heaven peep through” Lady Macbeth, Act I, Scene V
• Come you spirits [...] Unsex me here” Lady Macbeth, Act I, Scene V
• Out, damned spot: out, I say!” Lady Macbeth, Act V, Scene I

  “Out, out, brief candle” Macbeth, Act V, Scene V
• A little water clears us of this deed” Lady Macbeth, Act II, Scene II

  “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” Lady Macbeth, Act V, Scene I
• Fair is foul and foul is fair” Three Witches, Act I, Scene I

  “So foul and fair a day I have not seen”Macbeth, Act I, Scene III
• Macbeth does murder sleep!” Macbeth, Act II, Scene II
• "O worthless ambition which art thou thus grown!" - Banquo, Act III, Scene II
• Under my battlements. Come, you spiritsThat tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,And fill me from the crown to the toe top-fullOf direst cruelty! make thick my blood;Stop up the access and passage to remorse,That no compunctious visitings of natureShake my fell purpose, nor keep peace betweenThe effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
•  Lady Macbeth demonstrates her guilt through, ''Out, damned spot! out, I say!'' She says this line in Act V, Scene I, when she hallucinates Duncan's blood on her hands.
• I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness
• First Witch: When shall we three meet againIn thunder, lightning, or in rain?Second Witch: When the hurlyburly's done,When the battle's lost and won."
• What! can the devil speak true?
• If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere wellIt were done quickly