Macbeth Theme Quotes

• 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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• 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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• 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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• Where shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurlyburly 's done, when the battle 's lost and won

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Rain, Play

  William Shakespeare (2000). “The Tragedies of Shakespeare: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.1043, Modern Library

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• Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

  William Shakespeare

  Character, Hands, Play

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

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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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• 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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• My way of life
  Is fall'n into the sear and yellow leaf.

  William Shakespeare

  Fall, Yellow, Decay

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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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• 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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• Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Blood, Hands

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

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• If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Lady Macbeth, Crowns

  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare Macbeth Act I, Scene 3, l. 143

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• All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!

  William Shakespeare

  Hands, Lady Macbeth, Guilt

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, sc. 1, l. [55]

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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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• 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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• Out, damned spot! Out, I say!

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Hands, Play

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

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• False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

  William Shakespeare

  Memorable, Heart, Lady Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 82

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• There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face.

  William Shakespeare

  Fake People, Art, Science

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 4, l. 7

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• So foul and fair a day I have not seen.

  William Shakespeare

  Important Macbeth, Foul, Darkness In Macbeth

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 3, l. 38

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• To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 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. 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. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Death

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 5, 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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• 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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• I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more, is none

  William Shakespeare

  Courage, Peace, Men

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 1, sc. 7, l. 46

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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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• 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.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Life, Success

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

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