Macbeth Key Quotes

´Fair is foul and foul is fair,
Hover through the fog and filthy air´
Witches

´So foul and fair a day I have not seen´
Macbeth

"lesser than Macbeth, and greater"
"not so happy, yet much happier"
"Thou shalt get Kings"
Witches to Banquo

"The Thane of Cawdor lives, why do you dress me in borrowed robes?"
Macbeth

"Glamis and thane of Cawdor, the greatest is behind"
Macbeth

"tis strange, and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths"
Banquo

'My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical'
Macbeth

'There's no art to find the minds construction in the face'
King Duncan

'The Prince of Cumberland - That is a step on which I must fall down or else o'erleap'
Macbeth

'My dearest partner of greatness'
Macbeth

'Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear'
Lady Macbeth

'Unsex me here, and fill me from crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty'
Lady Macbeth

"Your face, my thane is a book where men may read strange matters...look like th'innocent flower, but be the serpent under't"
Lady Macbeth

'Which would be worn now in their newest gloss'
Macbeth

"Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed yourself"
Lady Macbeth

'First, as I am his Kinsman, then as his subject, then as his host...'
Macbeth

" The poor cat i'th'adage"
Lady Macbeth

"Hear it not Duncan, for it is a knell, that summons thee to heaven or to hell'
Macbeth

"An eagle, standing in her place with pride, was by a mousing owl, hawked at and killed' - Old Man

"The very stones beneath me prate my whereabouts"
Macbeth

'May they be my oracles as well'
Banquo

"I fear thou played'st most foully for't"
Banquo

'The worm that's fled, hath nature that in time will venom breed, no teeth for th'present'
Macbeth

'My Lord is often thus, and has been from his youth'
Lady Macbeth

"Do not shake thy gory locks at me"
Macbeth

"Macbeth: Beware Macduff, beware the Thane of Fife"
Apparition 1

"None of woman born shall harm Macbeth"
Apparition 2

"Macbeth shall not be vanquished 'til
Great Birnham wood to high Dunsinane hill"
Apparition 3

"Oh, Scotland, Scotland."
Macduff

"Naughts had all spent,
where our desire has got without content"
Lady Macbeth