A5, S1 – Doctor | “A great perturbation in nature” |
A5, S1 – Lady Macbeth | “Hell is murky.” |
A5, S1 – Lady Macbeth | “Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier, and afeard?” |
A5, S1 – Lady Macbeth | “who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him?” |
A5, S1 – Lady Macbeth | “The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now? What, will these hands ne’er be clean?” |
A5, S1 – Lady Macbeth | “What’s done cannot be undone” |
A5, S1 – Doctor | “unnatural deeds/ Do breed unnatural troubles” |
A5, S2 – Descriptions of Macbeth | “mad”, “valiant fury”, “the tyrant” |
A5, S2 – Angus | “Those he commands, move only in command,/ Nothing in love. Now does he feel his title/ Hang loose about him” |
A5, S2 – Caithness | “Meet we the med’cine of the sickly weal” |
A5, S2 – Lennox | “To dew the sov’reign flower and drown the weeds.” |
A5, S3 – Macbeth | “…honour, love, obedience, troops of friends,/ I must not look to have” |
A5, S3 – Macbeth | “I will not be afraid of death and bane,/ Till Birnam forest come to Dunsinane.” |
A5, S5 – Macbeth | “Our castle’s strength/ Will laugh a siege to scorn” |
A5, S5 – Macbeth | “I have supped full with horrors” |
A5, S5 – Macbeth | “Out, out, brief candle,/ Life’s but a walking shadow… It is a tale/ Told by an idiot,/ Full of sound and fury/ Signifying nothing.” |
A5, S5 – Macbeth | “I… begin/ To doubt th’equivocation of the fiend/ That lies like truth.” |
A5, S5 – Macbeth | “I ‘gin to be aweary of the sun/ And with th’estate o’th’world were now undone.” |
A5, S7 – Young Siward | “The devil himself could not pronounce a title/ More hateful to mine ear” |
A5, S7 – Siward | “The tyrant’s people on both sides do fight” |
A5, S8 – Macduff | “Macduff was from his mother’s womb/ Untimely ripped.” |
A5, S8 – Macbeth | “…these juggling fiends no more believed/ That palter with us in a double sense” |
A5, S9 – Stage Direction | “Enter MACDUFF, with Macbeth’s head” |
A5, S9 – Malcolm | “this dead butcher an his fiend-like queen” |
A5, S9 – Malcolm | “by self and violent hands/ Took off her life” |
Macbeth Quotations Act 5
November 30, 2019