Quotes from Macbeth
27 notable lines from William Shakespeare · c. 1606
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Out, damned spot! Out, I say!
Lady Macbeth, Macbeth Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time.
Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5 Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?
Macbeth, Macbeth By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
Second Witch, Act 4, Scene 1 Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.
The three Witches, Act 1, Scene 1 It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.
Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5 Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.
Macbeth, Macbeth 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.
Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 5 Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 1 Methought I heard a voice cry "Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep"—the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care.
Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 2 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!
Lady Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5 Look like th' innocent flower, But be the serpent under 't.
Lady Macbeth to Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5 Here's the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
Lady Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1 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 2, Scene 2 We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place And we'll not fail.
Lady Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7 I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on th' other—
Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7 It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.
Macbeth, Act 3, Scene 4 I am in blood Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.
Macbeth, Act 3, Scene 4 If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly.
Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 7 Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.
Lady Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5 So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3 What's done cannot be undone.
Lady Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 1 There's daggers in men's smiles.
Donalbain, Act 2, Scene 3 Naught's had, all's spent, Where our desire is got without content.
Lady Macbeth, Act 3, Scene 2 A little water clears us of this deed. How easy is it, then!
Lady Macbeth, Act 2, Scene 2 Lay on, Macduff, And damned be him that first cries "Hold! Enough!"
Macbeth, Act 5, Scene 8