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Macbeth Events Quotes

Act 1, Scene 1

ALL Fair is foul, and foul is fair;Hover through the fog and filthy air. (1.1.12-13)

Act 1, Scene 2

CAPTAIN And Fortune, on his damnèd quarrel smiling, Show'd like a rebel's whore. But all's too weak; For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name) Disdaining Fortune, with his brandished ste...

Act 1, Scene 3

FIRST WITCHAll hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!SECOND WITCHAll hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!THIRD WITCHAll hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter! (1.3.51-53)

Act 1, Scene 4

MACBETH [Aside] The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step On which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires: Th...

Act 1, Scene 5

LADY MACBETH […] Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' th' milk of human kindnessTo catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be...

Act 1, Scene 6

DUNCAN See, see, our honour'd hostess!—The love that follows us sometime is our trouble,Which still we thank as love. […]                    ...

Act 1, Scene 7

MACBETH                         Prithee, peace: I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. (1.7.50-52)

Act 2, Scene 1

MACBETH 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...

Act 2, Scene 3

PORTER                       Knock, knock! Who's there, in th'other devil's name? Faith, here's an equivocatorthat could swear in both th...

Act 2, Scene 4

ROSS                               'Gainst nature still! Thriftless ambition, that will ravin up Thine own lives' means!...

Act 3, Scene 1

MACBETH         If't be so, For Banquo's issue have I filed my mind, For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered, Put rancors in the vessel of my peace Only for them, and...

Act 3, Scene 2

MACBETH There's comfort yet; they are assailable.Then be thou jocund. Ere the bat hath flownHis cloister'd flight, ere to black Hecate's summonsThe shard-borne beetle with his drowsy humsHath run...

Act 3, Scene 4

MACBETH                                  For mine own good All causes shall give way. I am in blood Stepped in s...

Act 3, Scene 5

HECATE Have I not reason, beldams as you are?Saucy and overbold, how did you dare To trade and traffic with Macbeth In riddles and affairs of death,And I, the mistress of your charms, The close co...

Act 3, Scene 6

LORD                              The son of Duncan(From whom this tyrant holds the due of birth) (3.6.28-29)

Act 4, Scene 1

THIRD APPARITION Be lion-mettled, proud, and take no care Who chafes, who frets, or where conspirers are. Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall...

Act 4, Scene 3

MALCOLM                              'Tis call'd the evil:A most miraculous work in this good king,Which often, since...

Act 5, Scene 5

MACBETH She should have died hereafter;There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded...

Act 5, Scene 6

MACDUFF                             Either thou, Macbeth,Or else my sword, with an unbattered edge,I sheathe again undeede...

Act 5, Scene 8

SIWARD Had he his hurts before?ROSS Ay, on the front.SIWARD                 Why then, God's soldier be he!Had I as many sons as I have hairs,I would not wish...