Macbeth quotes

• 'Fair is foul, and foul is fair' - Witches
• "Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts unsex me here" - Lady Macbeth
• The three witches' prophecies highlight the importance of fate and destiny in the play.
• "I have given my wife to hell" - Macduff
• "I have given my two hands to pluck out a heart" - Macduff
• Macbeth's soliloquy at the end of Act 1 shows his inner turmoil as he struggles with guilt over Duncan's murder.
• "O full of scorpions is my mind dear wife! But I will buys it with this little life" - Macbeth
• Lady Macbeth's sleepwalking scene reveals her guilt and mental breakdown due to the weight of their actions.
• Banquo's ghost represents the consequences of Macbeth's actions and serves as a reminder of his own mortality.
• "Look like th' innocent flower but be the serpent under it" - Lady Macbeth
• "A little water clears us of this deed" - Lady Macbeth
• "Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine making the green one red." - Macbeth
• "Here's the smell of blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." - Lady Macbeth
• "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" - Lady Macbeth
• "I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other" - Macbeth
• "Look like th' innocent flower but be the serpent under 't" - Lady Macbeth
• "Out damned spot! Out I say!" - Lady Macbeth
• "Out damned spot! Out iota spot!" - Lady Macbeth
• "If chance will have me king why, chance may crown me without my stir" - Macbeth
• "O full of scorpions is my mind dear wife!" - Macbeth
• "Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done it" - Lady Macbeth
• "Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped" - Macbeth
• "Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell" - Macbeth
• "Thou canst not say i did it nor thou shalt not clear him" - Duncan
• "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hands? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine making the green one red" - Macbeth
• "Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle towards my hand?" - Macbeth
• "Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't" - Lady Macduff
• "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" - Lady Macbeth
• "I am afraid to think what I have done; look on't again I dare not" - Macbeth
• "I am afraid to think what I have done; look on't again I dare not" - Macbeth
• "I am in blood stepped in so far that should I wade no more returning were as tedious as go oer" - Macbeth
• "I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none" - Macbeth
• "Is this a dagger which I see before me the handle towards my hand" - Macbeth
• "The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of duncan under my battlements" - Macbeth
• "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" - Macbeth
• "Out damned spot! out, I say!" - Lady Macbeth
• "Out damned spot! out, I say!" - Lady Macbeth
• "The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements" - Macbeth
• "Macbeth does murder sleep" - Lady Macduff
• "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand" - Lady Macbeth