Macbeth Key Quotes

Learn, understand and analyse these key quotes from Macbeth

1. Complete(the(quote(table(by(
copying(the(single(word(or(phrase(
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2. Fairis#foul,#and#foul#is#fair."#(Act#I,#Scene#I) Fair####Foul
”For#braveMacbeth#–well#he#deservesthat#name”#(ActI#Scene#II) Brave#deserves
“Why#do#you#start#and#seem#to#fear#things#that#do#sound#so#fair”#(Act#I#ScIII)
”Whose#horrid#image#doth#unfix#my#hair”#(Act#I#Scene#III)
“Stars,#hide#your#fires!#Let#not#light#see#my#black#and#deep#desires.”#(Act#I#Scene#IV)
Come,#you#spiritsthat#tend#on#mortal#thoughts.#Unsex#me#here,#and#fill#me#from#the#
crown#to#the#toe,#topMfull#of#direst#cruelty’#(Act#I#Scene#V)
“That#my#keen#knife#see#not#the#wound#it#makes,#Nor#heaven#peep#through#the#blanket#
of#the#dark#to#cry#“hold,hold!”#(Act#I#Scene#IV)
"Yet#do#I#fear#thy#nature;#It#is#too#full#o'#the#milk#of#human#kindness."#(Act#I,#Scene#V)
"Look#like#the#innocent#flower,#but#be#the#serpent#under't."#(Act#I,#Scene#V)
“Screw#your#courage#to#the#stickingMplace."#(Act#I,#Scene#VII)
"I#have#no#spur#to#prick#the#sides#of#my#intent,#but#only#vaulting#ambition,#which#
o'erleapsitself,#and#falls#on#the#other."#(Act#I,#Scene#VII)
“He’s#here#in#double#trust”#(Act#I#Scene#VII)
"Is#this#a#dagger#which#I#see#before#me,#The#handle#toward#my#hand?"#(Act#II#Scene#I)
“Wither’dmurder,#strives#towards#his#design#moves#like#a#ghost”##(ActII#Scene#I)

3. "There's#daggers#in#men's#smiles."#(Act#II,#Scene#III)
“My#hands#are#of#your#colour,#but#I#shame#to#wear#a#heart#so#white”#(Act#II#Scene#II)
"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)
“Tobe#thus#is#nothing#but#to#be#safely#thus”.#Our#fears#in#Banquo#stick#deep”#(Act#III#Scene#I
“#We#have#scotch’dthe#snakenot#killed#it.”#(Act#III#Scene#II)
“Duncan#is#in#his#grave;after#life’s#fitful#fever,#he#sleeps#well”#(Act#III#Scene#II)
“O,full#of#scorpions#is#my#mind#dearest#wife”#(Act#III#Scene#II)
“blood#will#have#blood”#(Act#III#Scene#III)
“Russian#bear…arm’drhinoceros;#Take#any#shape#but#that.#hence#horrible#shadow”#(Act#IV#
Scene#III)
""By#the#pricking#of#my#thumbs,#Something#wicked#this#way#comes."#(Act#IV,#Scene#I)
“It#weeps,#it#bleeds;and#each#new#day#a#gash#is#added#to#her#wounds”##(Act#IV#Scene#III)
"Out,#damned#spot!#out,#I#say!"#(Act#V,#Scene#I).
"All#the#perfumes#of#Arabia#will#not#sweeten#this#little#hand."#(Act#V,#Scene#I)
"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)