Macbeth Quotes

• "Double double, toil and trouble, cauldron burn and fire bubble"

  witches 1.1
• "Out damned spot! Out I say"

  lady Macbeth 5.2
• "Thou canst not say i did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me"

  Macbeth 3.4
• Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts unsex me here"

  Lady Macbeth 1.5
• "When shall we three meet, in thunder, lightening or rain?"

  Witches 1.1
• Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air.

  Withces 1.1
• "Two spent swimmers tat cling together"

  Captain 1.2
• "unseamed him from the nave to the chops"

  Captain 1.2
• "My worthy Cawdor"

  Ducan 1.4
• "Let not light see my deep dark desires"

  Macbeth 1.4
• "Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full of the milk of human kindness!"

  Lady Macbeth 1.5
• "That I may pour my spirits in thine ear"

  Lady Macbeth 1.5
• "Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.

  Lady Macbeth 1.5
• "as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed"

  Macbeth 1.7
• "I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition"

  Macbeth 1.7
• "When you durst do it, then you were a man;"

  Lady Macbeth 1.7
• I would, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out"

  Lady Macbeth 1.7
• "Is this a dagger which I see before me? The handle toward my hand?"

  Macbeth 2.1
• “Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep”

  Macbeth 2.2
• "Go get some water And wash this filthy witness from your hand."

  Lady Macbeth 2.2
• "Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?"

  Macbeth 2.2
• "My hands are of your color, but I shame To wear a heart so white."

  Lady Macbeth 2.2
• "Good morrow, noble sir."

  Lennox 2.3
• "O horror, horror, horror!"

  Macduff 2.3
• "I fear Thou played most foully for it."

  Banquo 3.1
• "Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown"

  Macbeth 3.1
• "O, full of scorpions is my mind"

  Macbeth 3.2
• "Never shake Thy gory locks at me."

  Macbeth 3.4
• "for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth."

  Witches 4.1
• "our country sinks beneath the yoke. It weeps, it bleeds, and each day a new gash Is added to its wounds."

  Malcolm 4.3
• "When I shall tread upon the tyrant’s head, Or wear it on my sword?"

  Malcolm 4.3
• "She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word"

  Macbeth 5.5
• "Here’s the smell of blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."

  Lady Macbeth 5.1
• "Macduff was from his mother’s womb Untimely ripped."

  Macduff 5.8
• "Behold where stands, The usurper’s cursed head."

  Macduff 5.8
• What does usurper mean?


  a person who takes a position of power or importance illegally or by force. 
• What is a motif?


  A recurring theme or symbol in literature or art.
• What is the motif in Macbeth?


  Ambition, guilt, blood
• What does the Shakespearean society think of witches?


  believed in the supernatural and thought they were linked to the devil
• What does sleep represent?


  Innocence, restoration