Macbeth Quotes

Front 1

"Out, out..
LIQ

Back 1

"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"

Front 2

"the queen my lord.."
LMQ, Kingship

Back 2

"the queen my lord, is dead"
"She should have died hereafter"

Front 3

"I'll fight til
D

Back 3

"I'll fight til from my bones my flesh be hacked"

Front 4

Satan?
LIQ

Back 4

Seyton

Front 5

"And that which accompanies..
K

Back 5

"And that which accompanies old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have"

Front 6

"Unnatural deeds
K, NO

Back 6

"Unnatural deeds do breed unnatural troubles"

Front 7

"What's done
LMQ

Back 7

"What's done, cannot be undone" -LM

Front 8

"All the perfumes
LIQ, LMQ

Back 8

"All the perfumes of Arabia, will not sweeten this little hand"

Front 9

"The thane of
LMQ, Kingship, LIQ

Back 9

"The thane of Fife had a wife, where is she now?"

Front 10

"Yet who would
LMQ

Back 10

"Yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him"

Front 11

"Out, damned
LMQ

Back 11

"Out, damned spot, out I say!"

Front 12

"She has light
LMQ

Back 12

"She has light by her continually"

Front 13

"Since his
LMQ
K

Back 13

"Since his majesty went into the field"

Front 14

Your wives, your daughters
H,

Back 14

"Your wives, your daughters, your matrons and your maids, could not fill up the cistern of my lust "

Front 15

"Devotion,
K

Back 15

"Devotion, patience, courage, fortitude"

Front 16

"I think our country sinks
K, LIQ

Back 16

"I think our country sinks beneath the yoke, it weeps, it bleeds and each new day a gash is added to her wounds"

Front 17

"Each new morn,
LIQ, K, NO

Back 17

"Each new morn, new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike heaven on the face" - MacDuff

Front 18

"Give to the edge of the
K

Back 18

"Give to the edge of the sword his wife, his babes and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line"

Front 19

"For none of
D

Back 19

"For none of woman born should harm macbeth"

Front 20

"I am in blood
LIQ, K, Blood

Back 20

"I am in blood stepp'd in so far, that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'ver"

Front 21

"Never shake
LIQ, Blood

Back 21

"Never shake thy gory locks at me"

Front 22

"tis better
LIQ, Blood

Back 22

"tis better he without, then he within"

Front 23

"Things bad begun
K,

Back 23

"Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill"

Front 24

"Be innocent
LMQ

Back 24

"Be innocent of the knowledge dearest, chuck"

Front 25

"things without all remedy
LMQ, D

Back 25

"things without all remedy should be without regard. What's done is done"

Front 26

"Naught's had
LMQ

Back 26

"Naught's had all's spent, where our desire is got without content"

Front 27

"Whose absence is no less
K

Back 27

"Whose absence is no less material to me Then his father's, must embrace the fate of that dark hour"

Front 28

"I fear Thou
D,

Back 28

"I fear Thou play'st most foully for't"

Front 29

"There's daggers
D

Back 29

"There's daggers in men's smiles, the nearer in blood, the nearer in bloody"

Front 30

"The expedition
D

Back 30

"The expedition of my violent love outran the pauser, reason"

Front 31

"The night has been
LIQ

Back 31

"The night has been unruly, where we lay, our chimneys were blown down, and, as they say, lamentings heard in the air, strange screams of death"

Front 32

"It provokes the
H

Back 32

"it provokes the desire, but takes away the performance"

Front 33

"A little water
LMQ

Back 33

"A little water clears us of this deed, how easy is it then"

Front 34

"Macbeth shall
NO

Back 34

"Macbeth shall sleep no more"

Front 35

"Had he no resembled
LMQ

Back 35

"Had he no resembled my father as he slept, I had done't"

Front 36

"I go to
D

Back 36

"I go, and it is done, the bell invites me, here it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell"

Front 37

"I dream't last night
D

Back 37

"I dream't last night of the three weird sisters"
"I think not of them"

Front 38

""false face must
D

Back 38

""false face must hide what the false heart doth know"

Front 39

"but screw
LMQ

Back 39

"but screw your courage to the sticking place"

Front 40

"I have given suck
LMQ, LIQ,

Back 40

"I have given suck, and know how tender tis to feed the babe that milks me; I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck'd my nipple from its boneless gums and dash'd the brains out had I so sworn to you as you have done to this"

Front 41

"We will proceed
LMQ

Back 41

"We will proceed no further in this business"

Front 42

"I have no spur to prick
LIQ, LMQ

Back 42

"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition"

Front 43

"Look like the
LMQ, D

Back 43

"Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't"

Front 44

"My dearest
LMQ

Back 44

"My dearest love"

Front 45

"Come you spirits that
LMQ

Back 45

"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, stop up the access and passage to remorse, that no compunctions visiting of nature shake my fell purpose"

Front 46

"The raven
LMQ, LIQ

Back 46

"The raven himself is hoarse, that croacks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements"

Front 47

"Yet I do fear
LMQ

Back 47

"Yet I do fear thy nature is too full o' the mulk of human kindess"

Front 48

"My dearest partner
LMQ

Back 48

"My dearest partner in greatness"

Front 49

"That is a step on which I must
D

Back 49

"that is a step on which I must fall down, or else o'er leap"

Front 50

"Our duties are
D

Back 50

"Our duties are to your thrown and state, children and servents"

Front 51

"there's no art
D,

Back 51

"There's no art to find the minds construction in the face"

Front 52

"oh worthiest
D

Back 52

"oh worthies cousin"

Front 53

"worthy
D

Back 53

"worth macbeth for he deserves that name"

Front 54

"if good, why do I yield
D, LIQ

Back 54

"if good, why do I yield to that suggestion whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs, against the use of nature"

Front 55

"And oftentimes to win us to our
D

Back 55

"and oftentimes to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us in deepest consequences"

Front 56

"Why do you dress
IMQ

Back 56

"why do you dress me in borrowed robes?"

Front 57

"so foul and
LIQ

Back 57

"so foul and fair a day I have not seen"

Front 58

"noble
D

Back 58

"noble macbeth"

Front 59

"fair is foul
LIQ

Back 59

"fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air"

Front 60

"when should we three
LIQ

Back 60

"when should we three meet again, in thunder, lightning or in rain"

Front 61

"Brave macbeth, distaining
D

Back 61

"Brave macbeth, distaining forture with his brandished steal, which smoked with bloody execution, carved out the his passaged"..."unseamed him from the nave to the chaps and fixed his head upon our battlements"