macbeth quotes

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Ellie

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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: act 1. themes - ambition
that trusted name, might yet enkind you unto that crown - banquo: act 1
win us with these trifles to betrays our deepest consequence - banquo: act 1
we love him highly, and shall continue our graces towards him - Duncan, about Macbeth: act 1
He was a gentleman on whom i built and absolute trust - Duncan, about the previous thane of cawdor: act 1
unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe of the direst cruelty - Lady Macbeth: act 1. themes - gender
thy nature is too full o' the' milk of human kindness -Lady macbeth: act 1, about macbeth
He shall live a man forbid - the witches: act 1, about macbeth
The service and the loyalty i owe in doing pays itself - Macbeth: act 1. themes - loyalty, appearance vs reality
my dearest love - Macbeth: act 1. to lady macbeth
when you durst do it, then you were a man - Lady macbeth: act 1. to macbeth. themes - gender
stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires - macbeth: act 1. themes - appearance vs reality, light vs dark
in thunder, lightning or in rain? - the witches: act 1
You do unbend your noble strength to think so brain-sickly of things - Lady macbeth: act 2. to macbeth, because hes panicking after killing duncan
Had he not resembled my father as he slept, i had done't - Lady macbeth: act 2. themes - gender. shows she's still 'weak'
That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold - Lady macbeth: act 2. themes - gender. about the chaimberlains
with tarquins ravishing strides towards his design - Macbeth: act 2. about tarquin, a king of rome, expelled from his own nation
mine eyes are made the fools o' the other senses - Macbeth: act 2. themes - appearance vs reality. he's hallucinating the dagger
Will all great neptunes ocean wash away this blood clean from my hands? - macbeth: act 2, foreshadowing lady macbeths sleepwalking and hand washing
Whiles i threat, he lives - words to the heat of deeds two cold breaths give - Macbeth: act 2, about Duncan
The candles are all out - Banquo: act 2. Themes - light vs dark. Metaphor about the stars
But still keep my bosom franchised and alligance to clear it - Banquo: act 2. themes - ambition
i dreamt last night of the three weird sisters - Banquo: act 2
O' horror! horror! horror! tongue nor heart cannot conceive, nor name thee - Macduff: act 2, after finding duncans dead body
O gentle lady, 'tis not for you to hear what i speak - Macduff: act 2, to lady macbeth
to show an unfelt sorrow is an office which the false man does easy - Malcolm: act 2. themes - appearance vs reality (duplition)
this murderous shaft thats shot hath not yet lighted, and out safest way is to avoid aim - malcolm: act 2. he fears himself and donalblain will be killed next
i fear thou play'dst most fouly for't - banquo: act 3, about Macbeth
mine eternal soul is given to the common enemy of man - macbeth: act 3, themes - supernatural. hes giving his soul to the devil
know that it was he, in times of past, which held you so under fortune - macbeth: act 3, to the murderers, blackmailing them into killing banquo
tis safer to be that which we destory than destruction dwell in doubtful joy - Lady macbeth: act 3
and make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are - Macbeth: act 3, themes - appearance vs reality
you must leave this - Lady macbeth: act 3, to macbeth
go with me - Macbeth: act three, to lady macbeth, imperatively
this is the air-drawn dagger which led you to duncan - lady macbeth: act 3, to macbeth
my lord is often thus and hath been from his youth - lady macbeth, attempting to defend macbeth while he is hallucinating banquos ghost
and you all know security is mortals chiefest enemy - hecate: act 3
loves for his own ends, not for you - Hecate: act 3, about macbeth
he shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear - hecate: act 3, about macbeth. he shall succeed, but eventually, she shall get him, and it will be all the more brutal
something wicked this way comes - Witches: act 4, about Macbeth