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GCSE ENGLISH LITERATURE Macbeth by William Shakespeare Key Character Quotes |
CHARACTERS Macbeth Lady Macbeth Banquo Macduff Malcolm The Witches (Others) |
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"Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, ...
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.... Which smoked with bloody execution, / Like valor's minion carved out his passage"
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"Stars, hide your fires; ...
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.... Let not light see my black and deep desires."
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"Away, and mock the time with fairest show. ...
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.... False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
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"But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in ...
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.... To saucy doubts and fears. —But Banquo's safe?... With twenty trenchèd gashes on his head, The least a death to nature."
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"Sleep no more! ...
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.... Macbeth does murder sleep"—the innocent sleep, / Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care,"
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"Will all great ...
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.... Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No,"
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"We have scorched ...
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.... the snake, not killed it. / ...But let the frame of things disjoint, both the worlds suffer,"
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"O, full of scorpions ...
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.... is my mind, dear wife! / Thou know'st that Banquo and his Fleance lives."
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"It will have blood, ...
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.... they say; blood will have blood"
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"She should have died ...
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.... hereafter. / There would have been a time for such a word. / Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,"
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"Yet do I fear thy nature; ...
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.... / It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great, / Art not without ambition,"
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"Come, you spirits ...
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.... / 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."
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"Come to my woman's breasts, ...
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.... / And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers,"
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"Look like th' innocent ...
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.... flower, / But be the serpent under 't."
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"Was the hope drunk ...
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.... / Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since?"
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"I have given suck ...
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.... , and know / How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me. / I would, while it was smiling in my face, / Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums / And dashed the brains out"
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"Infirm of purpose! ...
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.... / Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead / Are but as pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood / That fears a painted devil."
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"Out, ...
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.... damned spot!"
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"A little ...
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.... water clears us of this deed."
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"The thane of Fife had a wife. ...
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.... Where is she now? - / What, will these hands ne'er be clean?"
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"Here's the smell of the blood ...
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.... still: All the perfumes of / Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, Oh, Oh!"
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"By each at once her choppy ...
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.... finger laying / Upon her skinny lips. You should be women, / And yet your beards forbid me to interpret / That you are so."
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"And oftentimes, to win us to our ...
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.... harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths, / Win us with honest trifles, to betray's / In deepest consequence."
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"What, can the ...
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.... devil speak true?"
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"Thou hast it now: king, ......
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Cawdor, Glamis, all, / As the weird women promised, and I fear / Thou played'st most foully for 't."
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"O treachery! Fly, ...
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.... good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! / Thou may 'st revenge —O slave!"
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"Bleed, bleed, poor country! ...
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.... / Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure, / For goodness dare not check thee."
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"That way the noise is. ...
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.... Tyrant, show thy face! / If thou beest slain, and with no stroke of mine, / My wife and children's ghosts will haunt me still. / Let me find him, Fortune, / And more I beg not."
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"Turn, hellhound, turn! ...
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.... I have no words. / My voice is in my sword. Thou bloodier villain / Than terms can give thee out!"
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"This murderous shaft that's ...
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.... shot / Hath not yet lighted, and our safest way / Is to avoid the aim."
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"Macduff, this noble passion, / Child of ...
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.... integrity, hath from my soul / Wiped the black scruples, reconciled my thoughts / To thy good truth and honor."
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"When shall we three ...
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.... meet again? / In thunder, lightning, or in rain?"
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"Fair is foul, and foul is fair ...
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.... / Hover through the fog and filthy air."
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"The weird sisters, hand in ...
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.... / hand, Posters of the sea and land, / Thrice to thine and thrice to mine / And thrice again, to make up nine."
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"By each at once her choppy ...
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.... finger laying / Upon her skinny lips. You should be women, / And yet your beards forbid me to interpret / That you are so."
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"All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, ...
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.... Thane of Glamis!" / "All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!" / "All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!"
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"Lesser than ...
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.... Macbeth and greater."
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"Not so happy ...
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.... , yet much happier."
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"Double, double toil and ...
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.... trouble, / Fire burn, and cauldron bubble."
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"By the pricking of my thumbs, ...
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.... / Something wicked this way comes. / Open, locks, / Whoever knocks."
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"How now, you secret, black, and ...
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.... midnight hags? / What is 't you do?"
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"Macbeth shall never vanquished ...
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.... be until / Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill / Shall come against him."
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