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Macbeth quotes and meaningsBanquo: "Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,
As the weird women promised, and I fear
Thou play'dst most foully for't." (referring to Macbeth) - -You have received
the predictions the witches made, you are King, Cawdor and Glamis. I am
afraid that you did evil deads to make these come true.
-Donalbain: "There's daggers in men's smiles." - -These men are not as they
seem, there is something evil and violent about them
-Lady Macbeth: "Out, damned spot! out, I say!" - -Trying to wash invisible
blood off her hands, she sees the figurative become literal in her mind. Her
guilt can not be washed away.
-Lady Macbeth: "Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done't." (referring to Duncan) - -If he hadn't
looked so much like my father I would have killed him myself - a hint at some
morality or ethical boundary that she is unwilling to cross
-Lady Macbeth: "Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full of the milk of human
kindness." (referring to Macbeth) - -I am afraid that Macbeth is too kind a
man to actually go through with murder
-Lady Macbeth: "A little water clears us of this deed." - -Following the
murder of Duncan, Lady Macbeth comforts Macbeth by promising that they
can wash away the evidence.
-Lady Macbeth: "Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't."
(referring to Macbeth) - -Pretend to be innocent, but in your heart be sly and
evil
-Lady Macbeth: "Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty!" - -Take away my feminine and innocent tendencies, make
me like a man, strong enough to commit the deeds.
-Lady Macbeth: "But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not
fail." - -Don't be a coward, if you are courageous we shall not fail
-Macbeth: "All our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! - -All the decisions we have
made in the past have lead us to our doom and death. life is like a candle,
easily blown out - in response to the suicide of his wife.
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