English - Macbeth Quotes

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The Three Witches (Act 1)
"fair is foul and foul is fair" "thane of Glamis, thane of Cawdor, King hereafter"
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Macbeth (Act 1)
"so foul and fair a day I have not seen" "Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor! The greatest is behind"
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Banquo (Act 1)
"look not like the inhabitants o' the Earth" "yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so" "what, can the devil speak true?"
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Macbeth (Act 1: when Duncan names Malcolm Prince of Cumberland, his successor to the throne)
"that is a step on which I must fall down, or else o'erleap"
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Macbeth (Act 1: he is aware that his thoughts are disloyal) AMBITION
"stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires" "only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself"
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Macbeth to Lady Macbeth (Act 1)
"my dearest partner of greatness"
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Lady Macbeth (Act 1)
"I fear thy nature for it is too full o' the milk of human kindness" "unsex me here, and fill me . . . topfull of direst cruelty" "make thick my blood" "take my milk for gall" "look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under't"
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Macbeth (Act 1)
"proceed no further in this business" "false face must hide what the false heart doth know"
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Macbeth (Act 2: dagger scene)
"a dagger of the mind, a false creation"
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Lady Macbeth (Act 2)
"that whihc hath made them drunk hath made me bold . . . hath given me fire" "had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done't"
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Lady Macbeth (Act 2: ironic quotes)
"these deeds must not be thought after these ways, so it will make us mad" "a little water clears us of this deed" "out damned spot!"
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Donalbain (Act 2)
"there's daggers in men's smiles"
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Lady Macbeth (Act 3: realisation that ambition is not going to bring them happiness)
"nought's had, all's spent, where our desire is got without content"
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Macbeth (Act 3)
"o, full of scorpians is my mind, dear wife" "be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck"
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Witches (Act 4: potion in the cauldron)
"poisoned" "venom" "hell-broth" = suggests their evil intentions
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Witches (Act 4)
"by the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes" "beware Macduff!" "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth" "great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come"
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Malcolm to Macduff (Act 4)
"black Macbeth will seem as pure as snow" (about his virtues) "but I have none"
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Malcolm (Act 4: after Macduff hears news about his family)
"dispute it like a man"
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Macduff's response to Malcolm (Act 4)
"I must also feel it like a man" = Macduff is not afraid to show feeling and emotion
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Lady Macbeth (Act 5)
"will these hands ne'er be clean?"
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Macbeth (Act 5: on Scotland)
"purge it to a sound and pristine health"
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Malcolm (Act 5: his idea to disguise their numbers)
"let every soldier hew him down a bough and bear't before him"
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Macbeth (Act 5: Lady Macbeth's death)
"I 'gin to be aweary of the sun"
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Macbeth (Act 5: fight scene - to Macduff)
"get thee back; my soul is too much charged with blood of thine already"
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Macduff (Act 5)
"Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped"
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"so foul and fair a day I have not seen" "Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor! The greatest is behind"

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"look not like the inhabitants o' the Earth" "yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so" "what, can the devil speak true?"

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"that is a step on which I must fall down, or else o'erleap"

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"stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires" "only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself"

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