quotes

• stage directions - thunder and lighting
• Witches - fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air
• captain - Brave Macbeth, well he deserves that name
• Duncan - Valiant cousin
• Duncan - worthy gentleman
• Duncan - noble Macbeth
• Captain - Til he unseamed him from the nave to the chaps, and fixed his head upon out battlements
• Macbeth - so foul and fair a day i have not seen
• Banquo - why do you start, and seem to feat things that sound so fair
• Banquo - the instruments of darkness tell us truths
• Macbeth - stars hide your fires, let not light see my deep and dark desires
• Lady Macbeth - Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here
• Macbeth - who should against his murtherer shut the door not bear the knife myself
• Macbeth - we will proceed n more in this business
• Lady Macbeth - I fear you are too full of the milk of human kindness
• Lady Macbeth - I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums and dash's the brains out, had i so sworn as you had done to this
• Macbeth - is this a dagger which i see before me, handle towards my hand?
• Macbeth - hear it not Duncan, for it is knell, that summons thee to heaven, or to hell
• Lady Macbeth - That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold. What hath quench'd them hath given me fire
• Lady Macbeth - Had he not resembled my father as he slept, i had done't
• Macbeth - i have done the deed
• Macbeth - i could not say amen
• Lady Macbeth - these deeds must not be thought after these ways; so, it will make us mad
• Lady Macbeth - a little water clears us from this deed
• Macbeth - will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand
• Lady Macbeth - the sleeping and the dead are but pictures; 'tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil
• Lady Macbeth - my hands are of your colour, but i shame to wear a heart so white
• Lennox - Where we lay, our chimneys were blown down, an heard in the air strange screams of death
• Macduff - O gentle lady! 'Tis not for you to hear what can speak
• Macduff - lest our old robes sit easier than our new
• Banquo - I fear thou play'dst most foully for it
• Macbeth - to be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus
• Macbeth - upon my head they placed a fruitless crown
• Lady Macbeth - things without all remedy/ should be without regard - whats done is done
• Macbeth - we have scorched the snake, not killed it
• Macbeth - Ere we will eat our meal in fear and sleep in the affliction of these terrible dreams that shake us nightly
• Macbeth - o, full of scorpions is my mind
• Macbeth - come seeling night, cancel and tear to pieces that great bond which makes me pale
• Macbeth - Now i am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in to saucy doubts and fears
• Macbeth - there the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled, hath nature that in time will venom breed