Macbeth quotes

• 3:2 ''what's done is done'' Lady Macbeth

  • repeats this in 5:1
• 1:5 ''stop up th' access and passage to remorse'' Lady Macbeth

  • wants to repress guilt
• 1:7 ''we'd jump the life to come'' Macebeth
• 2:2 ''I had most need of a blessing'' Macbeth
• 4:3 ''O, full of scorpions is my mind!'' Macbeth
• 4:3 ''Scotland is almost too afraid to know itself'' Ross

  • country's guilt
• 2:2 ''Macbeth shall sleep no more'' Macbeth
• 3:2 ''restless ecstasy'' Macbeth
• 2:2 ''a little water clears us of the deed'' Lady Macbeth
• 2:1 ''Is this a dagger which I see before me?'' Macbeth
• 2:2 '' [can]Neptune's ocean wash this blood...No'' Macbeth
• 3:4 ''To saucy doubts and fears''

  • Macbeth's fear is overwhelming
• 1:7 ''I dare do all that may become a man// Who dares do more is none'' Macbeth
• 4:3 ''Aye, and a bold one'' Macbeth

  • proving his masculinity
• When Malcom tests Macduff's loyalty he says he has a ''stanchless avarice''

  • 'claims' he has an unstoppable sex desire
• 4:3 ''My pretty Ones'' cried Macduff

  • deep, emotional paternal love
• 1:5 ''Pour spirits in [his] ear'' Lady Macbeth
• 1:5 ''take my milk for gall'' Lady Macbeth
• 1:3 ''[the witches are] so withered and so wild in their attire'' Banquo
• ''For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name'' Duncan
• ''We will proceed no further in this business'' Macbeth
• 1:1 ''He unseamed from the nave to the chops'' description of Macbeth in battle
• ''Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair'' Macbeth
• 1:5 ''My dearest love'' Macbeth to LM
• Macbeth calls the blood a ''sorry sight''
• witches further on describe King Macbeth as ''something wicked''
• ''Look like the innocent flower// but be the serpent underneath'' Lady Macbeth 's manipulation
• ''vaulting ambition, that o'erleaps itself'' Macbeth
• 5:1 ''will these hands ne'er be clean?'' Lady Macbeth
• 1:3 ''to win us our harm// the instruments of darkness tell us truths'' Banquo
• 1:4, Duncan ''signs of nobleness like stars shall shine// on all deserves''
• 1:7, Macbeth ''SO clear in his great office''

  • discussing Duncan's great rule
• 1:4, Duncan ''We will establish our estate upon... Malcom''
• 1:2, Duncan ''Brave Macbeth''
• 5:2, reported that ''those he commands, move only in command/ Nothing in love''
• 5:8, Macbeth described as a ''hell-hound''
• Malcom's cautious trust ''Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell''
• 4:3, Macduff ''bleed, bleed, poor country''
• 2:3, Lennox ''Some say, the earth was feverous and did shake''
• 1:5, Lady Macbeth asks the spirits ''That my keen knife not see the wound it makes''