MACBETH QUOTES

• witches - "fair is foul and foul is fair"
• Macbeth in battle - "disdaining fortune with his brandished steel, which smoked in bloody execution"
• Macbeth bravery - "like valour's minion"
• Macbeth bravery - "brave Macbeth : well he deserves that name"
• Macbeth align with witches - "so foul and fair a day I have not seen"
• LM about kings arrival - "the raven himself is hoarse"
• LM about M - "I fear thy nature, it is too full of the milk of human kindness"
• LM about gender - "come you spirits, unsex me here"
• LM - "come to my woman's breasts and take my milk for gall"
• LM to M -"your face, my thane, is a book where men may read strange matters"
• LM appearance vs reality - "look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it"
• M to himself (ambition to kill king) - "stars, hide your fires : let not light see my black and deep desires"
• Macbeth ambition - "vaulting ambition, which overleaps itself"
• M about killing king - "I dare do all that may become a man, who dares do more is none"
• LM to M - "when you durst do it, then you were a man"
• M - "false face must hide what the false heart doth know"
• M vision - "is this a dagger I see before me, handle toward my hand"
• LM ringing bell for M to kill D - "hear it not Duncan for it is a knell, that summons thee to heaven or hell"
• M about killing D - "I have done the deed"
• M guilt - "Will all great Neptunes oceans wash this blood clean from my hand"
• LM after regicide - "a little water clears us of this deed"
• LM to M -"my hands are of your colour but I shame to wear a heart so white"
• ? - "if a man were porter of hell gate he should have old turning the key"
• Duncan dead - "here lay Duncan, his silver skin laced with golden blood"
• deception + appearance vs reality - "there's daggers in mens smiles"
• Macbeth guilt - "Macbeth does murder sleep"
• M guilt - "O, full of scorpions is my mind"
• evil leads to evil (continuous murder) - "blood will have blood"
• M about banquo and fleance - "we've scorched the snake not killed it"
• M about D death - "Duncan is in his grave. after life's fitful fever he sleeps well"
• M in denial - "thou canst not say I did it, never shake thy gory locks at me"
• LM influencing M - "Are you a man?"
• M arguing with B ghost - "thy bones are narrowless, thy blood is cold: thou hast no speculation in those eyes"
• witches about M - "something wicked this way comes"
• witches - "weird sisters"
• Malcolm about Scotland - "I think our country sinks beneath the yoke. it weeps, bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds"
• M abuses power / is hated - "thus tyrant whose sole name blisters our tongues"
• Macduff's wife - "all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop"
• Malcolm tests Macduff - "a weak poor innocent lamb to appease an angry god"
• LM guilt - "out damned spot!"