Macbeth Key Quotations

"Fair is foul and foul is fair"

"...brave Macbeth...O valiant cousin...Bellona's bridegroom...noble Macbeth..."

"So fair and foul a day I have not seen"

"All hail Macbeth that shalt be king hereafter"

"...unsex me here, and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty...make my blood thick..."

"...look like th'innocent flower but be the serpent under't"

"Is this a dagger, which I see before me?"

"A dagger of the mind, a false creation proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?"

"These deeds must not be thought after these ways: so it will make us mad"

"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand..."

"A little water will clear us of this deed"

"To know my deed, 'twere best not know myself wake Duncan with thy knocking: I would thou couldst!"

"O! Full of scorpions is my mind, dear Wife!"

"But now, I am cabin'd crib'd, confin'd"

"It will have blood they say: blood will have blood"

"...I will tomorrow go to the Weird Sisters"

"...I am in blood stepp'd in so far, that should I wade no more returning were as tedious as go o'er"

"You lack the season of all natures, sleep"

"I conjure you, by that which you profess howe'er you come to know it, answer me"

"Be bloody, bold, and resolute ... for none of women born can harm Macbeth"

"Bleed, bleed, poor country"

"Not in the legions of horrid Hell can come a devil more damn'd in evils to top Macbeth"

"Let's us make med'cines of our great revenge to cure this deadly grief"

"...Macbeth is ripe for shaking"

"She has light beside her continually; 'tis her command"

"Out damned spot! Out, I say...Hell is murky"

"Who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him?"

"I have almost forgotten the taste of fear"

"...out, out brief candle..."

"...it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing"

"They have tied me to a stake: I cannot fly but bear-like I must fight the course"