"life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, / And then is heard no more. It is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing."
Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5
"Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more"
Macbeth Act 1, Scene 3
"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other."
Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7
"Stars hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires"
Macbeth Act 1 Scene 4
"For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind; for them the gracious Duncan have I murdered"
Macbeth Act 3 Scene 1
"Of full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife"
Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2
"Fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty"
Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
"When you durst do it, then you were a man"
Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7
"the Thane of Fife had a Wife, where is she now?"
Lady Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 1.
Fair is foul, and foul is fair,
"Hover through the fog and filthy air."
Witches Act 1 Scene 1
"Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth."
Witches/apparitions Act 4 Scene 1
"Thou has it now- King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,/ As the weird women promised, And, I fear, thou play'dst most foully for't."
Banquo Act 3 Scene 1
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?'
Macduff Act 4 Scene 3
Look like th'innocent flower but be the serpent under't'
Macbeth to Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
• 'For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name ...'