English M quotes

• 'unsex me here'
• 'exchange my milk for gull'
• 'for brave macbeth'
• 'is this the dagger which I see before me'
• 'look like the innocent flower but be serpent under it'
• 'thane of fife had a wife, where is she now' - Lady macbeth questioning where Lady macduff is
• 'unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toes top full of direst cruelty'
• 'out damned spot'
• 'all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand'
• 'fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air'
• 'stars, hide your fires , let not light see my black and deep desires'
• 'o valiant cousin, worthy gentleman'
• 'speak, I charge you' - Macbeth to witches, lack of self control. Argues against supernatural powers
• 'there's handsbandy in heaven ; their candles are all out' - Banquo, religious imagery , dark imagery. Connotes to Banquo's death
• 'Macbeth shall sleep no more' - Macbeth hears voices chanting 'sleep no more' ; Macbeth accepting that sleep is dangerous
• 'Beware Macduff' - First apparition - possible threat of Macduff
• 'when you durst do it, then you were a man'
• 'None of woman born shall harm Macbeth' - Bloody child, second apparition, comforts macbeth. Macduff is born from cesarean. Macbeth does not know this, finds out on his death scene.
• 'Mother's womb untimely ripp'd' - Macduff confirming threat
• 'we have scotch'd the snake, not killed it'
• 'o full scorpions is my mind' - Macbeth, the fact banquo and fleance still live is like a sting of a scorpion
• ' it is too full of the milk of human kindness'
• 'had he not resembled, my father as he slept, I had done't' - LM referring to duncan, she would've killed him but when Duncan was sleeping it reminds her of her father
• 'will all great neptune's oceans wash the blood clean from my hands'
• 'all hail, Macbeth that shall be King hereafter' - witches, macbeth trusts the supernatural
• 'And dash the brains out' - Lady macbeth, she would kill her own baby, hence the theme of the play, tragedy
• 'l could not say amen' - Macbeth acknowledging his guilt. Regicide he has killed a God appointed king, Jacobean chain of being, guilt
• 'it is a tale told by an idiot signifying nothing'
• 'Tomorrow, and tomorrow and tomorrow' - macbeth after finding out lady macbeth died
• 'enter the ghost of Banquo and sits in Macbeth's place' - Banquo
• 'or have we eaten on the insane root' - Banquo, he is sceptical of the witches
• 'lesser then Macbeth, and greater' - Banquo
• 'lest our robes sit easier than our new' - Macduff has a bleak perception of future of scotland
• 'thy hope ends here' - macduff, macbeth is a tyrant and no hope for him
• 'he is noble, wise, judicious' - ross defending macduff
• 'wisdom? to leave his wife, to leave his babes'
• 'what, all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?' - Macduff about his family's murder
• 'macduff, this noble passion, thy good truth and honour'
• 'stay, you imperfect speakers. Tell me more' - Macbeth to the witches
• 'to be thus is nothing, but to be safe thus' - macbeth feeling threatened by banquo