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Macbeth Quotes
A number of quotes from Shakespeare's Scottish tragedy, Macbeth.
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11th Grade
11/14/2010

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"We have scorched the snake,
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not killed it." Macbeth.
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(The witches first prophecies)
"All hail Macbeth!
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Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!"
Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!"
Thou shalt be king hereafter."
The witches.
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"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent,
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but only vaulting ambition, which o'er leaps itself and falls on the other." Macbeth.
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(Of Duncan's murder)
"Bloody
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business." Macbeth.
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"Stars, hide your fires!
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Let not night see my black and deep desires." Macbeth.
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(Euphemism for nagging)

"For a

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few words." Lady Macbeth.
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(About killing)

"We are yet

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but young indeed." Macbeth.
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(Of the witches)

"What!

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Can the devil speak true?" Banquo.
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(About the murder)
"What's done
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is done." Lady Macbeth.
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"'Tis safer to be that which we destroy than
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by destruction dwell in doubtful joy." Lady Macbeth.
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"Is this a dagger which I see before me,
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the handle toward my hand?" Macbeth.
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(Of Banquo's ghost)
"If I stand here,
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I saw him." Macbeth.
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"Let the frame of things disjoint,
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both the worlds suffer." Macbeth.
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(Of Duncan's sons)
"Bloody
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cousins." Macbeth.
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(A new position)

"Hail, most

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worth Thane! For it is thine." Ross.
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"To our dear friend Banquo,
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whom we miss, were he here." Macbeth.
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(Metaphor for sleep)
"Chief nourisher
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in life's feast." Macbeth.
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(To the witches)
"Say from whence you owe
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this strange intelligence?" Macbeth.
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"Make our faces vizards to
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our hearts, disguising what they are." Macbeth.
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(Manipulative technique)
"Infirm of
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purpose!" Lady Macbeth.
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"Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnam Wood
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to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him." Apparition #3
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(To the hired murderers)
"I will advise you
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where to plant yourself." Macbeth.
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(Synonym for hell)

"Deep

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damnation." Macbeth.
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(Separation)
"Why do you
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keep alone?" Lady Macbeth.
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(Of the witches)

"May they not be my oracles as well,

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and set me up in hope?" Banquo.
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(Of the witches)
"I think not
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of them." Macbeth.
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(Appearances vs. reality)
"There's daggers in
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men's smiles." Donalbain.
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(Planning the murder)
"Unsex
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me here." Lady Macbeth.
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(Powerful imagery)
"Gory
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locks." Macbeth.
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(Recalling a voice)
"Macbeth does
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murder sleep!" Macbeth.
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"He is here in double trust: first,
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as I am his kinsman and subject, strong both against the deed." Macbeth.
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(Continuing the internal conflict before killing Duncan)
"Then, as his host, who should
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against the murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself!" Macbeth.
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(Hands motif)

"A little water

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clears us of this deed." Lady Macbeth.
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(Macbeth's plans)
"I will tomorrow
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to the Weyard Sisters." Macbeth.
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"I dare do all that may become a man;
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who dares do more is none." Macbeth.
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"If chance will have me king,
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why, chance may crown me." Macbeth.
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"'Ere we will eat
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our meal in fear." Macbeth.
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(To Banquo before he dies)
"God be
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with you." Macbeth.
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"And fill me from the crown to the toe
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top-full of the direst cruelty." Lady Macbeth.
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"None of woman born
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shall harm Macbeth." Apparition #2.
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(Doubts)
"If we should
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fail?" Macbeth.
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(Manipulative technique)

"Shame

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itself." Lady Macbeth.
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"Thy blood is cold; thou hast no
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speculation in those eyes which thou dost glare with." Macbeth.
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"Screw your courage
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to the sticking place!" Lady Macbeth.
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"You all know, security is
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mortal's chiefest enemy." Heccat.
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"Yet do I fear thy nature: it is too full
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o'th'milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way." Lady Macbeth.
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"I feel thou play'dst
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most foully for't." Banquo.
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"I am in blood stepped so far that,
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should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o'er." Macbeth.
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(Manipulative technique)
"Are you
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a man?" Lady Macbeth.
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"Look like the innocent flower,
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but be the serpent under't." Lady Macbeth.
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"Go get me water, and wash this
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filthy witness from your hand." Lady Macbeth.
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"Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck,
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till thou applaud the deed." Macbeth.
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"The time has been that, when the brains were out, the man
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would die, and there an end, but now they rise again..." Macbeth.
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"False face must hide what
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the false heart doth know." Macbeth.
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"To be thus is nothing,
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but to be safely thus." Macbeth.
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"Why do you dress me
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in borrowed robes?" Macbeth.
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"If it were done when 'tis done,
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then 'twere well it were done quickly." Macbeth.
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"But now I am cabined, cribbed,
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confined, bound in to my saucy doubts and fears." Macbeth.
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"Affliction of these terrible dreams
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which shake us nightly." Macbeth.
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(Thinking about the murder)
"It will make
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us mad." Lady Macbeth.
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"He shall spurn fate,
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scorn death and bear his hopes 'bove wisdom." Heccat.
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(After Banquo's ghost disappears)
"I am
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a man again." Macbeth.
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"We but teach bloody instructions, which,
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being taught, return to plague the inventor." Macbeth.
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