Key Quotes
Quotes are organised by theme. Click a theme to expand its quotes.
"That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap"Macbeth, 1.4
"Stars, hide your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires"Macbeth, 1.4
"I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition"Macbeth, 1.7
"There's no art / To find the mind's construction in the face"King Duncan, 1.4
"False face must hide what the false heart doth know"Macbeth, 1.7
"There's daggers in men's smiles"Donalbain, 2.4
"This supernatural soliciting / Cannot be ill; cannot be good"Macbeth, 1.3
"So foul and fair a day I have not seen"Macbeth, 1.3
"Bloody instructions, which being taught, return / To plague th'inventor"Macbeth, 1.7
"For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name)"Captain, 1.2
"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, / Without my stir"Macbeth, 1.3
"Fear not, Macbeth, no man that's born of woman / Shall e'er have power upon thee"5.3
"His silver skin laced with his golden blood"Macbeth about King Duncan, 2.3
"In his royalty of nature reigns that / Which would be feared"Macbeth about Banquo, 3.1
"Now does he feel his title / Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe / Upon a dwarfish thief"Angus, 5.2
"Fair is foul and foul is fair / Hover through the fog and filthy air"The Witches, 1.1
"The instruments of darkness tell us truths — to betray's in deepest consequence"Banquo, 1.3
"Double, double, toil and trouble, / Fire burn and cauldron bubble"The Witches, 4.1
"Brave Macbeth — well he deserves that name"Sergeant, 1.2
"For valiant cousin, worthy gentleman"King Duncan, 1.2
"With his brandished steel, / Which smoked with bloody execution"Sergeant, 1.2
"When you durst do it, then you were a man"Lady Macbeth, 1.7
"Unsex me here. Take my milk for gall"Lady Macbeth, 1.5
"I dare do all that may become a man; / Who dares do more is none"Macbeth, 1.7
"But I must also feel it as a man"Macduff, 4.3
"Fair is foul and foul is fair"The Witches, 1.1
"There's no art / To find the mind's construction in the face"King Duncan, 1.4
"Look like the innocent flower / But be the serpent under't"Lady Macbeth, 1.5
"False face must hide what the false heart doth know"2.1
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand"Macbeth, 2.2
"Out, damned spot! out, I say!"Lady Macbeth, 5.1
"Will these hands ne'er be clean?"Lady Macbeth, 5.1