Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Macbeth.
Fate and Free Will Quotes
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...
Ambition Quotes
BANQUO
[…] My noble partnerYou greet with present grace and great prediction
Of noble having and of royal hope,
Th...
Power Quotes
THIRD WITCH All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter![…] Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo! (1.3.53;70-71)
Versions of Reality Quotes
ALL
Fair is foul, and foul is fair;Hover through the fog and filthy air. (1.1.12-13)
Gender Quotes
BANQUO
You should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpretThat you are so. (1.3.4...
The Supernatural Quotes
FIRST WITCHWhen shall we three meet againIn thunder, lightning, or in rain?SECOND WITCHWhen the hurly-burly's done,When the battle's lost and won.[…]FIRST WITCHI come, Graymalkin.SECOND WITCHPadd...
Violence Quotes
DUNCAN What bloody man is that? He can report,
As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt
The newest state. (1.2.1-3)
Time Quotes
BANQUO My noble partner
You greet with present grace and great predictionOf noble having and of royal hope,...