Macbeth Key Quotes

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"Fair is foul, and foul is fair." (Act I, Scene I)
The Witches
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"When the battle's lost and won." (Act I, Scene I)
The Witches
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"When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, When the battle 's lost and won." (Act I, Scene I)
The Witches
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"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me." (Act I, Scene III)
Macbeth
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"Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness." (Act I, Scene V)
Lady Macbeth
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"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't." (Act I, Scene V)
Lady Macbeth
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"I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none." (Act I, Scene VII)
Lady Macbeth
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"Screw your courage to the sticking-place." (Act I, Scene VII)
Lady Macbeth
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"I have no spur to ***** the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other." (Act I, Scene VII)
Macbeth
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"Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?" (Act II, Scene I)
Macbeth
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"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red" (Act II, Scene II)
Macbeth
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"There's daggers in men's smiles." (Act II, Scene III)
Donaldbain to Malcon (Duncan's sons)
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"What's done is done." (Act III, Scene II)
Lady Macbeth
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"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes." (Act IV, Scene I)
The Witches
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How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags! What is't you do?
Macbeth
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"Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble." (Act IV, Scene I)
The Wtches
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"Out, damned spot! out, I say!" (Act V, Scene I).
Lady Macbeth
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"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." (Act V, Scene I)
Lady Macbeth
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"Out, out, brief candle! 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." (Act V, Scene V)
Macbeth (finds out Lady Macbeth killed herself)
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"I bear a charmed life." (Act V, Scene VIII)
Macbeth (telling Macduff he can't be killed of someone woman born)
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Exeunt, fighting. Alarums. They enter fighting, and MACBETH slain. Retreat. Flourish. Enter, with drum and colors MALCOLM, SIWARD, ROSS, THANES, and SOLDIERS
Macbeth's death
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"When the battle's lost and won." (Act I, Scene I)

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