Macbeth Quotes

Macbeth is a classic tragedy by William Shakespeare.

• Lady Macbeth: Out, damned spot! out, I say! (Act 4, Scene 1)

• Lady Macbeth: What's done cannot be undone. (Act 4, Scene 1)

• King Duncan: There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face. (Act 1, Scene 4)

• Macbeth: False face must hide what the false heart doth know. (Act 1, Scene 8)

• Lady Macbeth: Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done. (Act 3, Scene 2)

• Lady Macbeth: But screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we'll not fail. (Act 1, Scene 7)

• Macbeth: Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires. (Act 1, Scene 4)

• Lady Macduff: When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors. (Act 4, Scene 2)

• Banquo: 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. (Act 1, Scene 1)

• Lady Macbeth: Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it. (Act 1, Scene 5)

• Macbeth: If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me. (Act 1, Scene 3)

• Lady Macbeth: Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness. (Act 1, Scene 5)

• Malcolm: Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak whispers the o'er-fraught heart, and bids it break. (Act 4, Scene 3)

• Malcolm: Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. (Act 4, Scene 3)

• Macbeth: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, 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. (Act 5, Scene 5)

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• Witches: Fair is foul, and foul is fair. (Act 1, Scene 1)

• Witches: Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble. (Act 4, Scene 1)

• Second Witch: By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. (Act 4, Scene 1)

• First Witch: Sleep shall neither night nor day hang upon his pent-house lid. (Act 1, Scene 3)

• Second Witch: Eye of newt, and toe of frog, wool of bat, and tongue of dog. (Act 4, Scene 1)