Macbeth quotes

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.

— Macbeth · Act V, Scene V — Dunsinane. Within the castle

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 · Act V, Scene V — Dunsinane. Within the castle

Double, double, toil and trouble; Fire, burn; and cauldron, bubble.

— All · Act IV, Scene I — A dark Cave. In the middle, a Cauldron Boiling

Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.

— All · Act I, Scene I — An open Place

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.

— Second Witch · Act IV, Scene I — A dark Cave. In the middle, a Cauldron Boiling

Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.

— Macbeth · Act II, Scene II — The same

It will have blood, they say, blood will have blood.

— Macbeth · Act III, Scene IV — The same. A Room of state in the Palace

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 th’ access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between Th’ effect and it!

— Lady Macbeth · Act I, Scene V — Inverness. A Room in Macbeth’s Castle

So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

— Macbeth · Act I, Scene III — A heath

Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn The power of man, for none of woman born Shall harm Macbeth.

— Apparition · Act IV, Scene I — A dark Cave. In the middle, a Cauldron Boiling

If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well It were done quickly.

— Macbeth · Act I, Scene VII — The same. A Lobby in the Castle

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.

— Macbeth · Act II, Scene I — Inverness. Court within the Castle

What’s done cannot be undone.

— Lady Macbeth · Act V, Scene I — Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle

But ’tis strange: And oftentimes to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s In deepest consequence.— Cousins, a word, I pray you.

— Banquo · Act I, Scene III — A heath

Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are: Macbeth shall never vanquish’d be, until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill Shall come against him.

— Apparition · Act IV, Scene I — A dark Cave. In the middle, a Cauldron Boiling

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.

— Macbeth · Act I, Scene VII — The same. A Lobby in the Castle

Out, damned spot! out, I say!

— Lady Macbeth · Act V, Scene I — Dunsinane. A Room in the Castle