Macbeth Quotes

Front 1

"Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it"

Back 1

Lady Macbeth to Macbeth , pre Duncan's death

Front 2

"Flase face must hide what false heart doth know"

Back 2

Macbeth after being convicted to follow Lady Macbeths plot

Front 3

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

Back 3

The witches (referring to themselves). Promising predictions in store for Macbeth

Front 4

"I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none."

Back 4

Macbeth trying to convince his wife that the truly manly way to go is against this death plot

Front 5

"Where shall we three meet again in thunder, in lightening or in rain?"

Back 5

The witches conversing amongst one another

Front 6

"Come you spirits

That tend on mortal thoughts! Unsex me here,"

Back 6

Lady Macbeth, before Duncan's death

Front 7

"And take my milk for gall you murdering ministers"

Back 7

Lady Macbeth , Pre Duncan's death

Front 8

"O full of scorpions is my mind"

Back 8

- Macbeth due to his desire to kill Fleance and Banquo

- Macbeth can't rest whilst they are alive

-scorpions are dangerous and deadly but resilient

Front 9

"What will these hands ne'er be clean?"

Back 9

Lady Macbeth, post Duncan's death

Front 10

"Screw your courage to the sticking place"

Back 10

Lady Macbeth to Macbeth, before Duncan's death, as he has cold feet

Front 11

"To bed , to bed"

Back 11

Lady Macbeth being driven insane by her actions

Front 12

"Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness"

Back 12

Act 1 Scene V , Lady Macbeth

Regarding Macbeth and his hesitation

Front 13

"I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none"

Back 13

Act 1 Scene VII ,

Macbeth conflicted about committing murder

Argues he is manly and anymore would be unnatural

Front 14

"I have no spur to prick of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other."

Back 14

Act 1, Scene VII

Macbeth is describing his lack of motivation

Only factor driving him is ambition

Front 15

"Is this the dagger I see before me, The handle toward my hand?"

Back 15

Act 2 Scene I

Macbeth makes his desicion to kill Duncan

Front 16

"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash th I blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multiduinous read incarnadine, making the green one red"

Back 16

Act 2 Scene II Macbeth referring to there not being enough water in the sea to clean his hands

The blood will stain the oceans red

Front 17

"Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,/ As the weird women promised; and, I fear/ Thou playedst most foully for 't"

Back 17

Act 2 Scene III , Banquo expresses suspicion of Macbeth

Nobility shines through

Front 18

"Our fears in Banquo/Stick deep"

Back 18

Act 3 Scene I

Macbeth speaks about fearing Banquo and feeling inferior

Front 19

"What's done is done"

Back 19

Act III Scene II

Lady Macbeth soothing words to calm her husband's guilt (out of character)

Regret

Front 20

"Be innocent of knowledge, dearest chuck, /Till Thou applaud the deed"

Back 20

Act 3 Scene II

Macbeth expressing that it is better that she doesnt know of his plan for Banquo and Fleance

Uses a term of endearment

Front 21

"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"

Back 21

Act V Scene I

Lady Macbeth Sleepwalking

Decends into madness due to guilt

Front 22

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

Back 22

Act V Scene I

Lady Macbeth

Front 23

"Macduff was from his mother's womb/ untimely ripped"

Back 23

Act V Scene IX

Macduff