Macbeth Key Quotes:
It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.
topic: Life, Sound, Idiot, Most Memorable, Metaphors Of Life
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.
source: The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Macbeth Act I, Scene 3, l. 143
topic: Kings, Lady Macbeth, Crowns, Macbeth Conflict, Macbeth Essay
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 16
topic: Fall, Ambition, Lady Macbeth, Blind Ambition, Macbeth Conflict
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 38
topic: Important Macbeth, Foul, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Essay, Macbeth Key
We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail.
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 54
topic: Life, Encouraging, Courage, Screw You, Macbeth Conflict
Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.
topic: Shadow, Candle, Walking, Brief Life, Darkness In Macbeth
Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.
topic: Stars, Halloween, Light, Darkness To Light, Light And Dark
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
topic: Memorable, Heart, Faces, Deceptive, False Appearances
Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [63]
topic: Flower, Advice, Lady Macbeth, Serpent, Macbeth Conflict
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 37
My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.
source: William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.30, 1st World Publishing
topic: Heart, Hands, Color, Darkness In Macbeth, Neptune
Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 79
topic: Men, Laughing, Apparitions, Macbeth Conflict, Macbeth Key
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 46
topic: Courage, Peace, Men, Beth, Dare To Be Great
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16
topic: Time, Futility Of Life, Lady Macbeth, Darkness In Macbeth, Meaninglessness
I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 136
topic: Blood, Lady Macbeth, Guilt, Guilty Conscience, Darkness In Macbeth
The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.
source: William Shakespeare (2012). “Macbeth Thrift Study Edition”, p.56, Courier Corporation
topic: Heart, Hands, Lady Macbeth, Macbeth Key, Macbeth Play
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 122
topic: Blood, Important Macbeth, Nature Of Evil, Macbeth Conflict, Macbeth Key
Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble!
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 4
topic: Halloween, Memorable, Play, Inspirational Halloween, Spooky Halloween
Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]
topic: Kindness, Play, Lady Macbeth, Nature Of Evil, Macbeth Conflict
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16
topic: Inspirational, Life, Death, Brief Life, Darkness In Macbeth
Tis safter to be that which we destroy Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.
source: William Shakespeare (2001). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.150, Classic Books Company
topic: Joy, Lady Macbeth, Important Macbeth, Doubtful, Macbeth Key
What, can the devil speak true?
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 107
topic: Truth, Devil, Speak, Macbeth Key
Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.
source: William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe (1723). “The works of Shakespear: In six volumes”, p.517
topic: Fog, Air, Hovering, Darkness In Macbeth, Thunder And Lightning
source: William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.1043, Modern Library
topic: Life, Rain, Play, Thunder And Lightning, Macbeth Key
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33
topic: Character, Hands, Play, Countrymen, Darkness In Macbeth
There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.
topic: Fake People, Art, Science, Macbeth Conflict, Macbeth Key
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 44
topic: Halloween, Wicked, Thumbs, Wicked Ways, Wicked Witch
If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well. It were done quickly.
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 1
topic: Witty, Done, Action, Macbeth Key, Important Macbeth
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33
topic: Art, Brain, Mind, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Conflict
The instruments of darkness tell us truths.
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 123
topic: Sad, Truth, Darkness, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Conflict
Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]
topic: Time, Hands, Two, Darkness In Macbeth, Macbeth Key
Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]
topic: Men, Blood, Hands, Sleepwalking, Macbeth Essay
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor.
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 1
topic: Return, Taught, Important Macbeth, Macbeth Essay, Macbeth Key
A little water clears us of this deed.
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 68
topic: Water, Lady Macbeth, Deeds, Neptune, World Water Day
source: 'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 1
topic: Life, Blow, Lds, Macbeth Key, Macbeth Play