Literature Sec 2 EOY Notes Macbeth Quotes
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Text from the first pagesQUOTES ACT 1 ● “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” — Act 1, Scene 1 ● “So foul and fair a day I have not seen.” — Act 1, Scene 3 ● “If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, / Without my stir.” — Act 1, Scene 3 ● “The prince of Cumberland! that is a step / On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap.” — Act 1, Scene 4 ● “Stars, hide your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires.” — Act 1, Scene 4 ● “Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.” — Act 1, Scene 5 ● “The raven himself is hoarse / That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan.” — Act 1, Scene 5 ● “Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.” — Act 1, Scene 5 ● “Your face, my thane, is as a book where men / May read strange matters.” — Act 1, Scene 5 ● “Look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under’t.” — Act 1, Scene 5 ● “Only look up clear; / To alter favour ever is to fear.” — Act 1, Scene 5 ● “This castle hath a pleasant seat.” — Act 1, Scene 6 ● “He’s here in double trust: / First, as I am his kinsman and his subject...” — Act 1, Scene 7 ● “I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition.” — Act 1, Scene 7 ● “We will proceed no further in this business.” — Act 1, Scene 7 ● “I dare do all that may become a man; / Who dares do more is none.” — Act 1, Scene 7 ● “When you durst do it, then you were a man.” — Act 1, Scene 7 ● “Nor time nor place / Did then adhere, and yet you would make both.” — Act 1, Scene 7 ● “Screw your courage to the sticking place.” — Act 1, Scene 7 ● “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” — Act 1, Scene 7 ACT 2 ● “Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand?” — Act 2, Scene 1 ● “Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible / To feeling as to sight?” — Act 2, Scene 1 ● “I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.” — Act 2, Scene 1 ● “Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell / That summons thee to heaven or to hell.” — Act 2, Scene 1
● “That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold.” — Act 2, Scene 2 ● “Had he not resembled / My father as he slept, I had done’t.” — Act 2, Scene 2 ● “I have done the deed.” — Act 2, Scene 2 ● “Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!’” — Act 2, Scene 2 ● “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?” — Act 2, Scene 2 ● “A little water clears us of this deed.” — Act 2, Scene 2 ● “Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.” — Act 2, Scene 3 ● “O horror, horror, horror!” — Act 2, Scene 3 ● “Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time.” — Act 2, Scene 3 ● “There’s daggers in men’s smiles.” — Act 2, Scene 3 ● “The night has been unruly.” — Act 2, Scene 3 ● “’Twas a rough night.” — Act 2, Scene 3 ● “O, yet I do repent me of my fury, / That I did kill them.” — Act 2, Scene 3 ● “Malcolm and Donalbain, the king’s two sons, / Are stol’n away and fled.” — Act 2, Scene 3 ● “’Tis unnatural, / Even like the deed that’s done.” — Act 2, Scene 4 ● “God’s benison go with you, and with those / That would make good of bad, and friends of foes.” — Act 2, Scene 4 ACT 3 ● “Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, / As the weird women promised.” — Act 3, Scene 1 ● “To be thus is nothing, / But to be safely thus.” — Act 3, Scene 1 ● “Our fears in Banquo / Stick deep.” — Act 3, Scene 1 ● “There is none but he / Whose being I do fear.” — Act 3, Scene 1 ● “He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour / To act in safety.” — Act 3, Scene 1 ● “Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown.” — Act 3, Scene 1 ● “Naught’s had, all’s spent, / Where our desire is got without content.” — Act 3, Scene 2 ● “We have scorched the snake, not killed it.” — Act 3, Scene 2 ● “O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!” — Act 3, Scene 2 ● “Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, / Till thou applaud the deed.” — Act 3, Scene 2 ● “Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.” — Act 3, Scene 2 ● “Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!” — Act 3, Scene 3 ● “Thou canst not say I did it; never shake / Thy gory locks at me!” — Act 3, Scene 4 ● “Avaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!” — Act 3, Scene 4 ● “This is the very painting of your fear.” — Act 3, Scene 4
● “I am in blood / Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, / Returning were as tedious as go o’er.” — Act 3, Scene 4 ● “Strange things I have in head, that will to hand, / Which must be acted ere they may be scann’d.” — Act 3, Scene 4 ● “We are yet but young in deed.” — Act 3, Scene 4 ● “By the pricking of my thumbs, / Something wicked this way comes.” — Act 3, Scene 5 ACT 4 ● “Double, double toil and trouble; / Fire burn and cauldron bubble.” — Act 4, Scene 1 ● “By the pricking of my thumbs, / Something wicked this way comes.” — Act 4, Scene 1 ● “How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!” — Act 4, Scene 1 ● “Something wicked this way comes.” — Act 4, Scene 1 ● “None of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth.” — Act 4, Scene 1 ● “Macbeth shall never vanquish’d be until / Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill / Shall come against him.” — Act 4, Scene 1 ● “Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee?” — Act 4, Scene 1 ● “The very firstlings of my heart shall be / The firstlings of my hand.” — Act 4, Scene 1 ● “Give to the edge o’ the sword / His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls / That trace him in his line.” — Act 4, Scene 2 ● “When our actions do not, / Our fears do make us traitors.” — Act 4, Scene 2 ● “Whither should I fly? / I have done no harm.” — Act 4, Scene 2 ● “He has killed me, mother.” — Act 4, Scene 2 ● “New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows / Strike heaven on the face.” — Act 4, Scene 3 ● “Bleed, bleed, poor country!” — Act 4, Scene 3 ● “Not in the legions / Of horrid hell can come a devil more damn’d / In evils to top Macbeth.” — Act 4, Scene 3 ● “Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.” — Act 4, Scene 3 ● “O nation miserable, / With an untitled tyrant bloody-scepter’d!” — Act 4, Scene 3 ● “Dispute it like a man.” — Act 4, Scene 3 ● “I shall do so; / But I must also feel it as a man.” — Act 4, Scene 3 ACT 5 ● “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!” — Act 5, Scene 1 ● “Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?” — Act 5, Scene 1 ● “What, will these hands ne’er be clean?” — Act 5, Scene 1
● “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.” — Act 5, Scene 1 ● “What’s done cannot be undone.” — Act 5, Scene 1 ●
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