Macbeth Quotes

Quotations:

1. "Fair is foul and foul is fair . . ." (Witches 1.1)

2. "So foul and fair a day I have not seen." (Macbeth 1.3)

3. "The Thane of Cawdor lives. Why do you dress me / In borrowed robes?" (Macbeth 1.3)

4. "This supernatural soliciting / Cannot be ill, cannot be good." (Macbeth 1.3)

5. "If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown me / Without my stir." (Macbeth 1.3)

6. "Nothing in his life / Became him like the leaving of it." (Malcolm 1.4)

7. "Yet do I fear thy nature. / It is too full of the milk of human kindness . . ." (Lady Macbeth 1.5)

8. "Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here . . ." (Lady Macbeth 1.5)

9. "I dare do all that may become a man; / Who dares do more is none." (Macbeth (1.7)

10. "When you durst do it, then you were a man . . ." (Lady Macbeth 1.7)

11. "Light thickens, and the crow / Makes wing to the rooky wood." (Macbeth 3.3)

12. "The time has been/ That, when the brains were out, the man would die, / And there an end!" (Macbeth 3.4)

13. "By the pricking of my thumbs / Something wicked this way comes." (2nd Witch 4.1)

14. "Infected be the air whereon they ride, / And damned all those that trust them!" (Macbeth 4.1)

15. "I have lived long enough. My way of life/ Is fallen into the sere, the yellow leaf . . ." (Macbeth 5.3)

16. "She should have died hereafter: / There would have been a time for such a word. / Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow / Creeps in this petty pace from day to day / To the last syllable of recorded time, / And all our yesterdays have lighted fools / The way to dusty death. 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." (Macbeth 5.5)

17. "Why should I play the Roman fool and die / On mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the gashes / Do better upon them." (Macbeth 5.8)

18. "the cruel ministers / Of this dead butcher and his fiendlike queen . . ." (Malcolm 5.8)