| “All our service,/in every point twice done and then done double” Lady Macbeth (Act 1, scene 6) | Hyperbole |
| “If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well/It were done quickly” Macbeth (Act 1, scene 7) | Euphemism |
| “Not so happy, yet much happier.” Act 1, scene 3, line 69 | Paradox |
| “A little water clears us of this deed” Lady Macbeth (Act 2, scene 2). | Understatement |
| “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood/Clean from my hand? No. This my hand will rather/The multitudinous seas incarnadine,/Making the green one red” Macbeth (Act 2, scene 2) | Hyperbole |
| “Approach the chamber, and destroy your sight / With a new Gorgon” Macduff (Act 2, scene 3) | Allusion |
| “So foul and fair a day I have not seen.” Act 1, scene 3, line 39 | Paradox |
| “Wake Duncan with thy knocking. I wouldst thou couldst” Macbeth (Act 2, scene 2) | Euphemism |
| “This supernatural soliciting/Cannot be ill, cannot be good.” Act 1, scene 3, line 143-144 | Paradox |
| “you shall put this night’s great business into my dispatch” Lady Macbeth (Act 1, scene 5) | Euphemism |
| “‘Twas a rough night” Macbeth (Act 2, scene 3). | Understatement |
| “Alarum’d by his sentinel, the wolf,/Whose howl’s his watch, thus with his stealthy pace./With Tarquin’s ravishing strides, towards his design./Moves like a ghost” Macbeth (Act 2, scene 1) | Allusion |
| “Lesser than Macbeth and greater.” Act 1, scene 3, line 68 | Paradox |
| “It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness/ To catch the nearest way” Lady Macbeth (Act 1, scene 5) | Euphemism |
| “And nothing is but what is not.” Act 1, scene 3, line 155 | Paradox |
Macbeth Quotes
September 12, 2019