MACBETH TOP 100 QUOTATIONS

1. Fair is foul, and foul is fair 31. Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth 69. This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,
2. Brave Macbeth…disdaining fortune does murder sleep 70. Bleed, bleed, poor country!
3. Unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops 32. wash this filthy witness from your hand. 71. black Macbeth will seem as pure as snow, and the poor
4. Why do you dress me in borrowed robes? 33. I'll go no more: I am afraid to think what I have done; state esteem him as a lamb, being compared with my
5. to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us 34. Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from confineless harms.
truths, win us with honest trifles my hand? 72. O nation miserable, with an untitled tyrant bloody-
6. This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good 35. My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so scepter'd,
7. Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated white. 73. Macduff, this noble passion, child of integrity, hath from my
heart knock at my ribs 36. O horror, horror, horror! soul wiped the black scruples
8. Present fears are less than horrible imaginings’ 37. His silver skin laced with his golden blood; And his gash'd 74. All my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?
9. If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me stabs look'd like a breach in nature 75. But I must also feel it as a man:
10. The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall 38. Help me hence, ho! 76. Macbeth Is ripe for shaking
down, or else o’erleap, 39. There's daggers in men's smiles: 77. Out, damned spot! out, I say!
11. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep 40. Sore night … dark night strangles the travelling lamp: 78. The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now?
desires. 41. A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing 79. all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
12. yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human owl hawk'd at and kill'd. Oh, oh, oh!
kindness 42. 'Tis said they eat each other. 80. infected minds to their deaf pillows discharge their secrets
13. Art not without ambition, but without the illness should 43. I fear,Thou play'dst most foully for't: 81. Now does he feel his secret murders sticking on his hands;
attend it 44. Our fears in Banquo stick deep 82. now does he feel his title hang loose about him, like a
14. unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top- 45. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, giant's robe upon a dwarfish thief.
full of direst cruelty! 46. And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, 83. To dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds.
15. Come to my woman's breasts, and take my milk for gall, you 47. Nought's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without 84. Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:
murdering ministers content: 85. my way of life is fall'n into the sear, the yellow leaf;
16. look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't 48. what's done is done. 86. Hang those that talk of fear.
17. All our service in every point twice done and then done 49. We have scorched the snake, not killed it: 87. Throw physic to the dogs; I'll none of it.
double 50. the affliction of these terrible dreams that shake us nightly 88. I have almost forgot the taste of fears;
18. If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done 51. O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! 89. I have supp'd full with horrors
quickly 52. Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, 90. She should have died hereafter; There would have been a
19. We still have judgment here; that we but teach bloody Till thou applaud the deed time for such a word. To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-
instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the 53. I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in morrow,
inventor 54. There the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled 91. Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow
20. his virtues will plead like angels 55. never shake thy gory locks at me. 92. it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying
21. Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself and falls on the 56. Are you a man? nothing.
other 57. Which of you has done this? 93. They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly, but, bear-like, I
22. We will proceed no further in this business 58. This is the very painting of your fear must fight the course
23. Was the hope drunk wherein you dress'd yourself? 59. It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood: 94. my soul is too much charged with blood of thine already.
24. When you durst do it, then you were a man; 60. I am in blood stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more, 95. I bear a charmed life, which must not yield, to one of
25. I have given suck, and know how tender 'tis to love the babe Returning were as tedious as go o'er: woman born.
that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, 61. We are yet but young in deed. 96. Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripp'd.
Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash'd 62. Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron 97. be these juggling fiends no more believed,
the brains out, had I so sworn as you bubble. 98. I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield.
Have done to this. 63. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way 99. this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen,
26. screw your courage to the sticking-place, comes. 100. by the grace of Grace, we will perform in measure, time and
27. False face must hide what the false heart doth know. 64. How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags! place
28. art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, 65. I conjure you
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? 66. Thy crown does sear mine eyeballs. CODE EACH QUOTATION TO LINK TO A THEME:
29. There's no such thing: It is the bloody business which 67. blood-boltered Banquo smiles upon me A = Ambition K = Kingship
informs Thus to mine eyes 68. I am in this earthly world; where to do harm is often D = Deception S = Supernatural
30. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't. laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly G = Guilt V = Violence
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