Macbeth Quotes

• Macbeth - deception

  Stars hide your fires, let light not see my black and deep desires
• Duncan trusts Macbeth

  He’s here in double trust
• Macbeth’s ambition

  i have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition
• Macbeth’s hallucinations - insanity and guilt

  Is this a dagger which I see before me?
• Macbeth destroys great chain of being

  But wherefore could not I pronounce Amen?
• Macbeth - motive of sleep

  Macbeth doth murder sleep
• Macbeth is going mad

  Oh full of scorpions is my mind dear
• Macbeth’s vision of banquo

  Thou canst not say I did it: never shake thy gory locks at me
• Macbeth’s thought of life has changed - has no meaning anymore (5,5)

  Life’s but a walking shadow … it is a tale told by an idiot full of sound and fury signifying nothing
• Macbeth remains proud - won’t bow down to Malcolm

  I will not yield … to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet
• Macbeth and lady Macbeth relationship

  My dearest partner of greatness
• Lady Macbeth fears Macbeth is too innocent and pure

  I do fear thy nature is too full oth milk of human kindness
• Lady macbeth emasculates herself

  unsex me here … take my milk for gal
• Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to be deceptive

  Look like th’innocent flower but be the serpent under it
• Lady Macbeth emasculates Macbeth

  When you durst do it then you were a man
• Lady Macbeth - lack of maternal instinct and violence

  I would … have dashed the brains out
• Lady Macbeth - guilt

  my hands are of your colour but I shame to wear a heart of white
• Lady Macbeth criticises Macbeth for feeling guilty

  What’s done is done
• Lady Macbeth emasculates Macbeth again

  Are you a man?
• Lady Macbeth hallucinates - insanity

  Out damned spot, out I say!
• Lady Macbeth is regretful

  All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand
• Witches - start

  Fair is foul and foul is fair
• Witches prophecy for Macbeth

  All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter
• Witches prophecy for Banquo’s sons

  Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none
• Witches - macbeth’s wickedness

  By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes
• Witches trick macbeth into thinking he’s invincible

  None of woman born shall harm Macbeth
• witches trick Macbeth again

  Macbeth shall never be vanquished until Great Birnham wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him
• Banquo - questions Macbeth

  Good sir why do you start and seem to fear things that do sound so fair?
• Banquo - appearance Vs reality (1,6)

  The air is delicate
• Duncan compares Banquo and Macbeth to growing trees

  Myself should be the root and father of many kings
• Duncan makes Macbeth Thane of Cawdor

  What he hath lost, noble macbeth hath won
• Duncan trusts Macbeth

  He was a gentlemen on who I built absolute trust
• Duncan about Lady Macbeth

  Fair and noble hostess
• Duncan as a great king

  Most sainted king

  Gracious
• Duncan calls Macbeth worthy

  O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman
• Macduff - will avenge his family’s death

  he has no children. all my pretty ones? … i must also feel it as a man
• Macduff born by C-section so he can kill Macbeth as he isn’t woman-born

  Macduff was from his mother’s womb … ultimately ripped
• Macbeth - good

  brave Macbeth
• Macbeth - good soldier / foreshadows the murders

  Unsealed him from his nave to th’ chops
• Hectate foreshadows Macbeth’s ending

  A dismal and fatal end