| “Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One, two:why, then, ’tis time to do’t.” | MADNESS Lady Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1 |
| “My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,Shakes so my single state of man that functionIs smothered in surmise” | AMBITION Macbeth Act 1 Scene 3 |
| “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” | APPEARANCE VS. REALITY The Witches Act 1 Scene 1 |
| “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a stepOn which I must fall down, or else o’erleap,For in my way it lies.” | BETRAYAL Macbeth Act 1 Scene 4 |
| “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!” | THE SUPERNATURAL The Witches Act 4 Scene 1 |
| “Come to my woman’s breastsAnd take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers” | GENDER Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5 |
| “Is this a dagger which I see before me,The handle toward my hand?” | MADNESS Macbeth Act 2 Scene 1 |
| “I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but onlyVaulting ambition which o’erleaps itselfAnd falls on th’other-“ | AMBITION Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7 |
| “… and play the humble host” | APPEARANCE VS REALITY Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4 |
| “How goes my wife?””Why,well” | BETRAYAL Macduff and Rosse Act 4 Scene 3 |
| “Greater than both by the all-hail hereafter” | THE SUPERNATURAL Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5 |
| “Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here” | GENDER Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5 |
| “Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more,Macbeth does murder sleep'” | MADNESS Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2 |
| “‘Gainst nature still!Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin upThine own life’s means!” | AMBITION Rosse Act 2 Scene 4 |
| “Your hand, your tongue; look like th’innocent flower,But be the serpent under’t.” | APPEARANCE VS REALITY Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5 |
| ” ‘Tis said they eat each other.” | BETRAYAL Old Man Act 2 Scene 4 |
| “Turn, hell-hound, turn!” | THE SUPERNATURAL Macduff Act 5 Scene 8 |
| “O gentle lady,’Tis not for you to hear what I can speak.” | GENDER Macduff Act 2 Scene 3 |
| “What’sdone cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.” | MADNESS Lady Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1 |
| “I am in bloodStepped in so far that should I wade no more,Returning were as tedious as go o’er.” | AMBITION Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4 |
| “Never shakeThy gory locks at me!” | APPEARANCE VS REALITY Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4 |
| “Our fears in BanquoStick deep, and in his royalty of nature Reigns that which would be feared.” | BETRAYAL Macbeth Act 3 Scene 1 |
| “I come, Graymalkin!””Paddock calls.” | THE SUPERNATURAL The Witches Act 1 Scene 1 |
| “Dispute it like a man.” | GENDER Malcolm Act 4 Scene 3 |
| “In the affliction of these terrible dreamsThat shake us nightly.” | MADNESS Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2 |
| “Thou wouldst be great,Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it.” | AMBITION Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5 |
| “Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace,Yet grace must still look so.” | APPEARANCE VS REALITY Malcolm Act 4 Scene 3 |
| “Wisdom! To leave his wife, to leave his babes,His mansion and his titles in a placeFrom whence himself does fly? He loves us not.” | BETRAYAL Lady Macduff Act 4 Scene 2 |
| “Thrice to thine, and thrice to mine,And thrice again to make up nine.Peace- the charms wound up.” | THE SUPERNATURAL The Witches Act 1 Scene 3 |
| “you should be women,And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so.” | GENDER Banquo Act 1 Scene 3 |
| “Prithee, see there! Behold, look, lo! How say you?” | MADNESS Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4 |
| “May they not be my oracles as well,And set me up in hope? But hush! No more.” | AMBITION Banquo Act 3 Scene 1 |
| “There’s no artTo find the mind’s construction in the face:He was a gentleman on whom I builtAn absolute trust.” | APPEARANCE VS REALITY Duncan Act 1 Scene 4 |
| “Ring the alarum bell! Murder and treason!” | BETRAYAL Macduff Act 2 Scene 3 |
| “There’s husbandry in heaven;Their candles are all out.” | THE SUPERNATURAL Banquo Act 2 Scene 1 |
| “Bring forth men-children only,For thy undaunted mettle should composeNothing but males.” | GENDER Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7 |
| “What, will these hands ne’er be clean?” | MADNESS Lady Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1 |
| “All that impedes thee from the golden round,Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seemTo have thee crowned withal.” | AMBITION Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5 |
| “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” | APPEARANCE VS REALITY Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7 |
| “To betray’sIn deepest consequence.” | BETRAYAL Banquo Act 1 Scene 3 |
| “Ere the bat hath flown””The shard-borne beetle””The crow makes wing to the rooky wood” | THE SUPERNATURAL Lady Macbeth and Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2 |
| “When you durst do it, then you were a man.” | GENDER Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7 |
| “The Thane of Fife had a wife- Where is she now?” | MADNESS Lady Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1 |
| “either thou, Macbeth,Or else my sword with an unbattered edge I sheathe again undeeded.” | AMBITION Macduff Act 5 Scene 7 |
| ” ‘Tis day And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp.” | APPEARANCE VS REALITY Rosse Act 2 Scene 4 |
| “You may deserve of him through me, and wisdomTo offer up a weak, poor, innocent lambTo appease an angry god.” | BETRAYAL Malcolm Act 4 Scene 3 |
| “Round about the cauldron go,In the poisoned entrails throw.” | THE SUPERNATURAL The Witches Act 4 Scene 1 |
| “O, I could play the woman with mine eyesAnd braggart with my tongue!” | GENDER Macduff Act 4 Scene 3 |
| “O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!” | MADNESS Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2 |
| “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stageAnd then is heard no more.” | AMBITION Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5 |
| “There’s daggers in men’s smiles.” | APPEARANCE VS REALITY Donalbain Act 2 Scene 3 |
| “My first false speakingWas this upon myself. What I am truly,Is thine and my poor country’s to command” | BETRAYAL Malcolm Act 4 Scene 3 |
| “Sleep shall neither night nor day” | THE SUPERNATURAL The Witches Act 1 Scene 3 |
| “What’s the boy Malcom?Was he not born of woman?” | GENDER Macbeth Act 5 Scene 3 |
| “Here’s the smell of blood still- all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. O,o,o!” | MADNESS Lady Macbeth Act 5 Scene 1 |
| “Up, up and see The great doom’s image” | BETRAYAL Macduff Act 2 Scene 3 |
| “That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark,To cry, ‘Hold, hold.'” | THE SUPERNATURAL Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5 |
| “None of woman bornShall harm Macbeth” | GENDER The Witches Act 4 Scene 1 |
MACBETH THEMES QUOTES
September 13, 2019