Macbeth key quotes

• Act 1 Scene 2- VIOLENCE-captain

  He unseamed him from the nave to the chops.
• Act 1 scene 2- KINGSHIP and BRAVERY-captain

  For brave macbeth- well he deserved that name.
• Act 1 scene 2- BRAVERY & NOBILITY- captain

  Like valour's minion
• Act 1 scene 3- Macbeth ambition for power has instantly turned him to betrayal- macbeth


  If good why do i yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock
• Act 1 scene 3- macbeth thinks if it is his fate he will be king without interfering- macbeth


  If chance will have me king why chance may crown me without a stir
• Act 1 scene 2- macbeh is praised for his nobility-duncan

  O valiant cousin! O worthy gentleman!
• Act 1 scene 2- Duncan reward macbeth for loyalty and nobility- duncan

  what he hath lost noble macbeth hath won
• Act 1 scene 4-APPEARANCE VS REALITY- macbeth declares his love for king duncan

  the service and loyalty i owe in doing so pays itself
• Act 1 scene 4-APPEARANCE VS REALITY- macbeth declares his loyaltys to the crown

  our duties are to your throne and state, children and servants
• Act 1 scene 4- APPEARANCE VS REALITY- macbeth considers regicide

  stars hide your fires let light not see my black and deep desires
• Act 1 scene 5- macbeth shows his love and respect for lady macbeth

  My dearest partner of greatness...my dearest love
• Act 1 scene 7-AMBITION-macbeth suggests the only motivator to commit regicide is his ambition

  I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent only vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and falls on the other.
• Act 1 scene 7-APPEARANCE VS REALITY- macbeth host duncan at dinner is torn as to whether to kill duncan

  He's here in double trust. i am his kinsman and his subject, both strong against the deed, as his host should against the murderers shut the door not bear the knife myself
• Act 1 scene 7- macbeth describes duncans virtuous qualities

  His virtues plead like angels... like a naked newborn babe
• Act 2 scene 1-SUPERNATURAL-macbeth first sees dagger


  Is this a dagger which i see before me, the handle towards my hand? come let me clutch thee.
• Act 2 scene 1-SUPERNATURAL-macbeth hallucinates dagger


  A dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat appressed brain
• Act 2 scene 2-GUILT- after killing duncan macbeth struggles to say amen


  could i not pronounce amen?... amen stuck in my throat
• Act 2 scene 2-GUILT-macbeth cant sleep


  sleep no more macbeth does murder sleep... macbeth shall sleep no more
• Act 2 scene 2-macbeth describes sleeps importance

  sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care... sore labours bath, balm of hurt minds... chief nourisher in lifes feast
• Act 2 scene 2- GUILT-mavbeth cant wash blood from his hands

  will all great neptunes ocean wash this bood clean from my hand
• Act 3 scene 1- macbeth expresses his fears in banquos kingly qualities


  Our fears in banquo stick deep... his royalty of nature... and to that dauntless temper he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour... there is none but him whose being i do fear
• Act 3 scene 2-GUILT- macbeth still cant sleep


  sleep in the affliction of these terrible dreams that shake us nightly
• Act 3 scene 2-macbeth would rather be dead as he cant sleep


  Better be with dead... than on the torture if the mind to lie in ecstasy
• Act 3 scene 2-GUILT-macbeth is envious of duncan as he can sleep in his grave


  Duncan in his grave, after life's fitful fever he sleeps well... nor steel, nor poison, nor malice, foreign levy nothing can touch him further
• Act 3 scene 2-GUILT- macbeth mind is overwhelmed


  Full of scorpions is my mind
• Act 3 scene 2-APPEARANCE VS REALITY- macbeth command his wife that they must put on a facade for their guests


  Make our faces vizards to our heart digsguising what they are
• act 3 scene 4- macbeth seems constrained by his own doubts and conscinece as life hadbt been as expected

  But now i am cabined, cribbed, confined bound to saucy doubts and fears
• Act 3 scene 4- macbeth trys to deny his own guilt in banquos death


  Thoust cannot say i did it; never shake thy gory locks at me!
• Act 3 scene 4- SUPERNATURAL&GUILT- banquos gohst


  that dare look on that which might appal the devil... thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold, thou hast no specuation in those eyes which thou dost glare with
• Act 4 scene 1-SUPERNATURAL-macbeth confronts and trys to command the witches


  You secret, black and midnight hags!... Answer me
• Act 4 scene 1- Macbeth declares that he will now act on impulse

  From this moment the very firstlings of my heart shall be the very firstlings of my hand
• Act 4 scene 1- macbeth is arrogant and believes himself indestructible since wood cannot move


  Who can impress the forst, bid the tree unfix his earthbound root.
• Act 5 scene 3-macbeth suggest he is not scred until the wood moves overconfidence


  Till birnam wood remove to dunsinane i cannot taint with fear
• Act 5 scene 3- macbeth has cearly lost empathy or compassion even for his wife


  How does your patient doctor?... Cure her of that
• Act 5 scene 3- macbeth thinks hes invincible


  I will not be afraid of death and bane till birnam forest come to dunsinane
• Act 5 scene 3- Asks doctor to cure scotlands illness unknowing that it is his own fault as he is blinded by ambition


  Cast the water of my land, find her disease, and purge it to a sound and pristine health
• Act 5 scene 3- macbeth puts on armour and readies for batte


  Put mine armour on; give me my staff
• Act 5 scene 5- Macbeth shows a lack of care for his wifes death


  She should have died hereafter
• Act 5 scene 5- macbeth shows his lack of fear or any emotion blinded by insatiable need for power and ambition


  I have almost forgot the taste of fears
• Act 5 scene 5- macbeths reflects and even accepts the fleeting nature of life


  Out, out brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow