Macbeth quotes and themes

Macbeth
1. "Why do I yield to that suggestion, whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs at the use of nature" Act 1 Scene 3
2. "Full of scorpions is my mind dear wife" Act 3 scene 2
3. "Brave Macbeth, well he deserves that name... unseamed him from the nave to the chaps" Act 1 Scene 2
4. "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 syallable 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 its 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 5 scene 5
5. "Will all great Neptune's ocean was this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand rather turn the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red" Act 2 Scene 2
6. "Each new morn / New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows" Act 3 Scene 3
7. "So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels" Act 1 Scene 7
8. “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which over leaps itself” Act 1 Scene 7
9. "They hail'd him father to a line of kings: Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown / And put a barren sceptre in my gripe" Act 3 Scene 1
10. "I could not say 'Amen'... Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more. Macbeth does murder sleep.'... 'Glamis hath murdered sleep', and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more" Act 2 Scene 2
11. "I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked. Give me my amour... I'll put it on... Give me mine armour… Act 5 Scene 3 Blow wind, come wrack; At least we'll die with harness on our back" Act 5 Scene 5
12. “To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus” Act 3 Scene 1
13. "I am in blood stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go'er" Act 3 Scene 4
14. "Now I am cabined, cribbed confined" Act 3 Scene 4
Lady Macbeth
1. "Unsex me here, and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty... Take
2. “When thou durst do it, then you were a man... I would while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this” Act 1 Scene 7
3. "Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under't" Act 1 Scene 5
4. my milk for gall... Come, thick night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell" Act 1 Scene 5
5. “Yet I do fear thy nature; it is too full of the milk of human kindness… thou wouldst be great; art not without the ambition, but without the illness that should attend it” Act 1 Scene 5
6. "A little water clears us of this deed... Act 2 Scene 2 Out, damned spot!... What, will these hands ne'er be clean?... here's the smell of blood still" Act 5 Scene 1
7. "What's done cannot be undone" Act 5 Scene 1
8. "The sleeping and the dead are but pictures" Act 2 Scene 2
The witches/ werid sisters
1. "Fair is foul and foul is fair" Act 1 scene 1
Themes
1. Ambition
2. Masculinity and Cruelty
3. Divine Right of Kings
4. Tyranny
5. Fate
6. Tragedy
7. Guilt
8. Equivocation
Malcom
1. "Dispute it like a man" Act 4 Scene 3
2. "He's worth more sorrow / And that I'll spend for him" Act 5 Scene 9
Macduff
1. "I shall do so. But I must also feel it like a man" Act 4 Scene 3
Banquo
1. "The instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us in deepest consequence" Act 1 Scene 3
2. “If you can look into seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me” Act 1 Scene 3

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