Macbeth Play Quotes - Page 2

• Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other side

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Ambition, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 16

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• Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn the power of man.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Laughing, Apparitions

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 79

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• That but this blow
  Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
  But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
  We'ld jump the life to come.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Blow, Lds

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 1

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• When our actions do not, our fears make us traitors.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Our Actions, Brighten Your Day

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 2, l. 3

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• Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

  William Shakespeare

  Angel, Important Macbeth, Brows

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 3, l. 22

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• It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury; signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Death, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• 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.
  Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
  To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
  A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
  Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Memorable, Sight

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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• Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?

  William Shakespeare

  Art, Brain, Mind

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 1, l. 33

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• The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Hands, Lady Macbeth

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Macbeth Thrift Study Edition”, p.56, Courier Corporation

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• The instruments of darkness tell us truths.

  William Shakespeare

  Sad, Truth, Darkness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 123

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• All's well that ends well.

  John Heywood

  Wise, Wisdom, Drama

  John Heywood (1867). “The proverbs and epigrams of John Heywood: with an app. of variations”, p.21

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• Out, out, brief candle! Life's but a walking shadow.

  William Shakespeare

  Futility Of Life, Play, Life And Death

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 5, l. 16

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• Out, damned spot! out, I say! One: two: why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky!

  William Shakespeare

  Time, Hands, Two

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

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• Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.

  William Shakespeare

  Kindness, Play, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [16]

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

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Wicked, Thumbs

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 44

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• Fair is foul, and foul is fair, hover through fog and filthy air.

  William Shakespeare

  Fog, Air, Hovering

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Pope, Nicholas Rowe (1723). “The works of Shakespear: In six volumes”, p.517

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• Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.

  William Shakespeare

  Flower, Advice, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 5, l. [63]

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• Out, damned spot! Out, I say!

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Hands, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [38]

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• My hands are of your color, but I shame to wear a heart so white.

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Hands, Color

  William Shakespeare (2005). “The Tragedy of Macbeth”, p.30, 1st World Publishing

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• A little water clears us of this deed.

  William Shakespeare

  Water, Lady Macbeth, Deeds

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 68

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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Ocean, Blood, Hands

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 2, sc. 2, l. 61

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• As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, / I must not look to have; but, in their stead, / Curses, not loud but deep, mouth-honour, breath, / Which the poor heart would fain deny, and dare not" (5.3.25-28).

  William Shakespeare

  Heart, Troops, Looks

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 3, l. 22

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

  William Shakespeare

  Halloween, Memorable, Play

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 4

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• I am in blood Stepp'd in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er.

  William Shakespeare

  Blood, Lady Macbeth, Guilt

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 3, sc. 4, l. 136

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• 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

  William Shakespeare

  Truth, Winning, Darkness

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 123

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