Macbeth Quotes

Act 1, Scene 1:

• “There to meet with Macbeth.” - Witches

• “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” -Witches

Act 1, Scene 2:

• “For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name” - Sergeant

• “Till he unseamed him from the nave to th' chops, and fixed his head upon our battlements.” - Sergeant

• “O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman” - Duncan

• “Yes, as sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion. If I say sooth, I must report they were as cannons overcharged with double cracks” - Sergeant

• “No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive our bosom interest: go pronounce his present death, and with his former title greet Macbeth.” -Duncan

Act 1, Scene 3:

• “So foul and fair a day I have not seen“ -Macbeth

• “You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so” - Banquo

• “Why do you start, and seem to fear things that do sound so fair?” - Banquo

• “Speak, then, to me, who neither beg nor fear, your favors nor your hate.” - Banquo

• “Thou shalt get Kings, though thou be none” - Witches

• “Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more.” - Macbeth

• “Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?” - Macbeth

• “The instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray‘s in deepest consequence.” - Banquo

• “This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good.” - Macbeth

• “Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs” - Macbeth

• “Present fears are less than horrible imaginings” -Macbeth

• “If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me without my stir.” - Macbeth

Act 1, Scene 4:

• “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face. He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.” - Duncan

• “Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires” - Macbeth

• “The eye wink at the hand, yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.” - Macbeth

Act 1, Scene 5:

• “my dearest partner of greatness” - Macbeth

• “Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way” - Lady Macbeth

• “That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements.” - Lady Macbeth

• “Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here” - Lady Macbeth

• "fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty" - Lady Macbeth

• "take my milk for gall" - Lady Macbeth

• “Stop up the access and passage to remorse” - Lady Macbeth

• “pall thee in the dunnest smoke of Hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor Heaven peep through the blanket of the dark” - Lady Macbeth

• “My dearest love” - Macbeth

• “O never shall sun that morrow see” - Lady Macbeth

• “Your face, my Thane, is as a book” - Lady Macbeth

• “Look like the innocent flower,…