| Fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air | Witches |
| No more that thane of cawdor shall deceive our bosom interest, go pronounce his present death, and with his former title great macbeth | King Duncan |
| Weary se’nnights nine times nine shall dwindle, peak and pine; though his bark cannot be lost, yet it shall be tempest tost | Witches |
| All hail Macbeth! Hail to the, thane of glamis, cawdor, and King! | Witches |
| Lesser than Macbeth, but greater…. | Witches |
| And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betrays in deepest consequence | Banquo |
| The prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, for in my way it lies | Macbeth |
| Glamis thou art, and cawdor, and shalt be what thou art promised, yet do I fear thy nature, it is too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way, thou wouldst be great | Lady Macbeth |
| Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood | Lady macbeth |
| This castle hath a pleasant seat, the air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses | King Duncan |
| We still have judgement here, that we but teach bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague the inventor | Macbeth |
| So clear in his great office, that his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet tounged, against the deep damnation of his taking off | Macbeth |
| I dare do all that may become a man, who dares do more is none | Macbeth |
| A limbeck only, when in swinish sleep there drenched natures lie as in death, what cannot you and I perform upon the unguarded Duncan? | Lady macbeth |
| A dagger of the mind, a false creation…. | Macbeth |
| There’s no such thing, it is the bloody business which informs thus to mine eyes. Now o’er the one halfworld nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse the curtained sleep, witchcraft celebrates pale hecate’s offerings | Macbeth |
| Hear it not Duncan, for it is a knell, that summons thee to heaven or to hell | Macbeth |
| But wherefore could I not pronounce amen. I had most need of blessing, and amen stuck in my throat | Macbeth |
| Still it had cried sleep no more to all the house, glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore cawdor shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more | Macbeth |
| Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers, the sleeping and the dead are but pictures, it’s the eye of childhood that fears the painted devil | Lady macbeth |
| My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white | Lady Macbeth |
| Who’s there, in the name of Beelzebub. Here’s a farmer, that hanged himself on the expectation of plenty | Porter |
| To Ireland I, our separated fortune shall keep us both safer, where we are, there’s daggers in men’s smiles, the near in blood, the nearer bloody | Donalbain |
| Thou hast it now, King cawdor, glamis, all, as the weird women promised, and, I fear, thou play’dst most foully for it | Banquo |
| Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, and put a barren scepter in my gripe | Macbeth |
| Treason has done his worst, nor steel, nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing, can touch him further | Macbeth |
| There the grown serpent lies, the worm that’s fled hath nature that in time will venom breed,no teeth for the present | Macbeth |
| Sit, worthy friends, my lord is often thus, and hath been from youth, pray you, keep your seat, the fit is momentary | Lady Macbeth |
| But now they rise again. With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, and push us from our stools. This is more strange than such a murder is. | Macbeth |
| You have displaced the mirth, broke the good meeting, with most admired disorder | Lady Macbeth |
| By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes | Witches |
| Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware of Macduff, beware the thane of fife. Dismiss me, enough | First apparition |
| Be bloody, bold, and resolute, laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth | Second apparition |
| Macbeth shall never vanquished be until great birnham wood to high dunsinane hill shall come against him | Third apparition |
| Horrible sight! Now, I see tis true, for the blood-bolterd Banquo smiles upon me, and points at them for his | Macbeth |
| The castle of Macduff I will surprise, seize upon fife, give to the edge of the sword | Macbeth |
| Whither should I fly? I have done no harm, but I remember now I am in this earthly world, where do harm is often laudable ,to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly | Lady Macduff |
| Nay, I had the power, I should pour the sweet milk of concord into hell, uproar the universal peace, confound all unity on earth | Malcolm |
| Fit to govern! No, not fit to live. O nation miserable | Macduff |
| But I must also feel it as a man, I cannot but remember such things were, that were most precious to me | Macduff |
| Out damned spot, out I say! | Lady Macbeth |
| Let every soldier hew down a bow and bear it before him | Malcolm |
| She should have died hereafter…. | Macbeth |
| Why should I play the roman fool and die on mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the gashes do better upon them | Macbeth |
| But get thee back! My soul is too much charged with blood of thine already | Macbeth |
| And thous opposed, being of no woman born, yet I will try the last | Macbeth |
Macbeth quotes
January 3, 2020