Macbeth

• Macbeth: '"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir."'
• Macbeth: '"Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires"'
• Macbeth: '"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. I have thee not, and yet I see thee still."'
• Macbeth: '"My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, Shakes so my single state of man"'
• Macbeth: '"So foul and fair a day I have not seen."'
• Macbeth: '"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?"'
• Macbeth: '"Bring forth men-children only, For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males."'
• Macbeth: '"Methought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more: Macbeth does murder sleep', the innocent sleep"'
• Macbeth: '"I bear a charmed life which must not yield To one of woman born."'
• Macbeth: '"Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs Against the use of nature?"'
• Macbeth: '"Thou canst not say I did it; never shake Thy gory locks at me!"'
• Banquo: '"That he seems rapt withal. To me you speak not. If you can look into the seeds of time, "'
• Banquo: '"and I fear Thou played'st most foully for't"'
• Banquo: '"Or have we eaten on the insane root That takes the reason prisoner? "'
• The Witches: '"Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air. "'
• The Witches: '"I'll drain him dry as hay. Sleep shall neither night nor day"'
• Duncan: '"But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine On all deservers"'
• Macduff: '"All my pretty ones? Did you say "all"? O hell-kite! All? What, all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop? "'
• Lady Macbeth: '"look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under't."'
• Lady Macbeth

  • Appearance vs reality
  • Supernatural
  • Gender
  • Ambition
• 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: '"Make thick my blood. Stop up th' access and passage to remorse,"'
• Lady Macbeth: '"Out, damned spot; out, I say."'
• Lady Macbeth: '"Come to my woman's breasts, And take my milk for gall,"'
• Lady Macbeth: '"Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress'd yourself? hath it slept since?"'