Macbeth quotations

• Act 1 Scene 1: '"Fair is foul, foul is fair" - witches, supernatural, appearance vs reality
• Act 1 Scene 2: '"brave Macbeth... with his brandish'd steel/which smoked with bloody execution/Like valour's minion carved out his passage" - Macbeth, power
• Act 1 Scene 4: '"Stars hide your fires; let light not see my black and deep desires" - Macbeth, power
• Act 1 Scene 4: ”too full o’th milk of human kindness" - Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, power, appearance vs reality, ambition
• Act 1 Scene 5: ”unsex me here... make thick my blood… take my milk for gall... come thick night" - Lady Macbeth, power, ambition, appearance vs reality
• Act 1 Scene 6: '"look like th‘ innocent flower but be the serpent under’t" - Lady Macbeth, appearance vs reality
• Act 1 Scene 7: '"dash'd the brains out" - Lady Macbeth, ambition
• Act 1 Scene 7: '"no spur/to prick the sides of my intent, but only/vaulting ambition" - Macbeth, ambition, kingship
• Act 2 Scene 2: '"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood/clean from my hand?" - Macbeth'
• Act 2 Scene 2: '"No... / a little water clears us of this deed: How easy is it, then!" - Lady Macbeth'
• Act 2 Scene 3: '"O, horror, horror, horror!" - Macduff'
• Act 2 Scene 4: '"By the clock, 'tis day. And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp... A falcon towering in pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd"'
• Act 3 Scene 1: '"I fear, thou play'st most foully for't" - Banquo'
• Act 3 Scene 1: '"Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, and put a barren sceptre in my grip" - Macbeth'
• Act 3 Scene 2: '"O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!" - Macbeth'
• Act 3 Scene 4: '"Never shake thy gory locks at me" - Macbeth'
• Act 3 Scene 4: '"It will have blood they say, blood will have blood" - Macbeth'
• Act 3 Scene 65: '"security/Is mortals' chiefest enemy" - Supernatural, Appear. vs reality'
• Act 4 Scene 1: '"By the pricking of my thumbs/ Something wicked this way comes" - witches'
• Act 4 Scene 2: '"He loves us not" - witches'
• Supernatural


  • Macbeth
• Act 4 Scene 2: '"noble, wise, judicious" - Macduff'
• Act 4 Scene 3: '"Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damn'd/in evils to top Macbeth" - Macduff'
• Act 4 Scene 3: '"Bleed, bleed, poor country" - Macduff'
• Act 5 Scene 1: '"Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!" - Lady Macbeth'
• Act 5 Scene 6: '"Harbingers of blood and death" - Macduff'
• Act 5 Scene 8: '"Untimely ripp'd from his mother's womb" - Macduff'
• Act 5 Scene 8: '"Hell hound... tyrant... usurper... Dead butcher and his fiend-like queen" - Macbeth, Lady Macbeth, Macduff, Malcolm'
• Act 5 Scene 9: '"Hail, King of Scotland" - Macduff, Malcolm'