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MACBETH THEMES QUOTES

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"Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One, two:
why, then, 'tis time to do't."
MADNESS Lady Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1
"My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smothered in surmise"
AMBITION Macbeth Act 1 Scene 3
"Fair is foul, and foul is fair"
APPEARANCE VS. REALITY The Witches Act 1 Scene 1
"The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap,
For in my way it lies."
BETRAYAL Macbeth Act 1 Scene 4
"Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!"
THE SUPERNATURAL The Witches Act 4 Scene 1
"Come to my woman's breasts
And take my milk for gall, you murd'ring ministers"
GENDER Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
"Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?"
MADNESS Macbeth Act 2 Scene 1
"I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself
And falls on th'other-"
AMBITION Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7
"... and play the humble host"
APPEARANCE VS REALITY Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4
"How goes my wife?"
"Why,well"
BETRAYAL Macduff and Rosse Act 4 Scene 3
"Greater than both by the all-hail hereafter"
THE SUPERNATURAL Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
"Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here"
GENDER Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
"Methought I heard a voice cry, 'Sleep no more,
Macbeth does murder sleep'"
MADNESS Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2
"'Gainst nature still!
Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up
Thine own life's means!"
AMBITION Rosse Act 2 Scene 4
"Your hand, your tongue; look like th'innocent flower,
But be the serpent under't."
APPEARANCE VS REALITY Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
" 'Tis said they eat each other."
BETRAYAL Old Man Act 2 Scene 4
"Turn, hell-hound, turn!"
THE SUPERNATURAL Macduff Act 5 Scene 8
"O gentle lady,
'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak."
GENDER Macduff Act 2 Scene 3
"What's
done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed."
MADNESS Lady Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1
"I am in blood
Stepped in so far that should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er."
AMBITION Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4
"Never shake
Thy gory locks at me!"
APPEARANCE VS REALITY Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4
"Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep, and in his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be feared."
BETRAYAL Macbeth Act 3 Scene 1
"I come, Graymalkin!"
"Paddock calls."
THE SUPERNATURAL The Witches Act 1 Scene 1
"Dispute it like a man."
GENDER Malcolm Act 4 Scene 3
"In the affliction of these terrible dreams
That shake us nightly."
MADNESS Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2
"Thou wouldst be great,
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it."
AMBITION Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
"Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.
Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,
Yet grace must still look so."
APPEARANCE VS REALITY Malcolm Act 4 Scene 3
"Wisdom! To leave his wife, to leave his babes,
His mansion and his titles in a place
From whence himself does fly? He loves us not."
BETRAYAL Lady Macduff Act 4 Scene 2
"Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine,
And thrice again to make up nine.
Peace- the charms wound up."
THE SUPERNATURAL The Witches Act 1 Scene 3
"you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so."
GENDER Banquo Act 1 Scene 3
"Prithee, see there! Behold, look, lo! How say you?"
MADNESS Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4
"May they not be my oracles as well,
And set me up in hope? But hush! No more."
AMBITION Banquo Act 3 Scene 1
"There's no art
To find the mind's construction in the face:
He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust."
APPEARANCE VS REALITY Duncan Act 1 Scene 4
"Ring the alarum bell! Murder and treason!"
BETRAYAL Macduff Act 2 Scene 3
"There's husbandry in heaven;
Their candles are all out."
THE SUPERNATURAL Banquo Act 2 Scene 1
"Bring forth men-children only,
For thy undaunted mettle should compose
Nothing but males."
GENDER Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7
"What, will these hands ne'er be clean?"
MADNESS Lady Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1
"All that impedes thee from the golden round,
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
To have thee crowned withal."
AMBITION Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."
APPEARANCE VS REALITY Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7
"To betray's
In deepest consequence."
BETRAYAL Banquo Act 1 Scene 3
"Ere the bat hath flown"
"The shard-borne beetle"
"The crow makes wing to the rooky wood"
THE SUPERNATURAL Lady Macbeth and Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2
"When you durst do it, then you were a man."
GENDER Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7
"The Thane of Fife had a wife- Where is she now?"
MADNESS Lady Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1
"either thou, Macbeth,
Or else my sword with an unbattered edge
I sheathe again undeeded."
AMBITION Macduff Act 5 Scene 7
" 'Tis day
And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp."
APPEARANCE VS REALITY Rosse Act 2 Scene 4
"You may deserve of him through me, and wisdom
To offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb
To appease an angry god."
BETRAYAL Malcolm Act 4 Scene 3
"Round about the cauldron go,
In the poisoned entrails throw."
THE SUPERNATURAL The Witches Act 4 Scene 1
"O, I could play the woman with mine eyes
And braggart with my tongue!"
GENDER Macduff Act 4 Scene 3
"O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!"
MADNESS Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2
"Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more."
AMBITION Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5
"There's daggers in men's smiles."
APPEARANCE VS REALITY Donalbain Act 2 Scene 3
"My first false speaking
Was this upon myself. What I am truly,
Is thine and my poor country's to command"
BETRAYAL Malcolm Act 4 Scene 3
"Sleep shall neither night nor day"
THE SUPERNATURAL The Witches Act 1 Scene 3
"What's the boy Malcom?
Was he not born of woman?"
GENDER Macbeth Act 5 Scene 3
"Here's the smell of blood still- all the perfumes
of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O,o,o!"
MADNESS Lady Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1
"Up, up and see
The great doom's image"
BETRAYAL Macduff Act 2 Scene 3
"That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,
To cry, 'Hold, hold.'"
THE SUPERNATURAL Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
"None of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth"
GENDER The Witches Act 4 Scene 1
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