Top 20 Best Macbeth Key Quotes & Sayings 2023

Macbeth key quotes ambition

1.“Let fall thy blade on vulnerable crests; I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of woman born.”

2.“To know my deed, ’twere best not know myself.”

3.“Yet do I fear thy nature, It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.”

4.“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t.”

5.“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.”

6.“Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. “

7.“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what’s done, is done.”

8.“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”

9.“Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.”

10.“There’s daggers in men’s smiles. The near in blood, The nearer bloody.”

Macbeth key quotes

11.”Fair is foul, and foul is fair:

Hover through the fog and filthy air.”

(Act I, Scene 1)

12.”Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.

I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible

To feeling as to sight? Or art thou but

A dagger of the mind, a false creation,

Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”

(Act II, Scene 1)

13.”Stars, hide your fires;

Let not light see my black and deep desires.”

(Act I, Scene 4)

14.”I have no spur

To prick the sides of my intent, but only

Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself

And falls on the other.”

(Act I, Scene 7)

15.”…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 compunctious visitings of nature

Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between

The effect and it! Come to my woman’s breasts,

And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,

Wherever in your sightless substances

You wait on nature’s mischief!”

(Act I, Scene 5)

16.”…I have given suck, and know

How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me:

I would, while it was smiling in my face,

Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums,

And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you

Have done to this.”

(Act I, Scene 7)

17.”Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more!

Macbeth does murder sleep.’

…

What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes.

Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood

Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather

The multitudinous seas in incarnadine,

Making the green one red.”

(Act II, Scene 2)

18.”Out, damned spot! out, I say! — One: two: why,

then, ’tis time to do’t. — Hell is murky! — Fie, my

lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? What need we

fear who knows it, when none can call our power to

account? — Yet who would have thought the old man

to have had so much blood in him.

….

The thane of Fife had a wife: where is she now? —

What, will these hands ne’er be clean? — No more o’

that, my lord, no more o’ that: you mar all with

this starting.

…

Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the

perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little

hand. Oh, oh, oh!

…

Wash your hands, put on your nightgown; look not so

pale. — I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried; he

cannot come out on’s grave.

…

To bed, to bed! there’s knocking at the gate:

come, come, come, come, give me your hand. What’s

done cannot be undone. — To bed, to bed, to bed! “

(Act V, Scene 1)

19.”To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,

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.”

(Act V, Scene 5)

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