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Macbeth Quotes
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- English Home Language
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- 10
Perfect resource of the important quotes from Macbeth, to aid in writing literature essays. I achieved 29/30 in the Macbeth literature essay in my grade 10 exam
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Macbeth QuotesBanquo understands the danger of the prophecy
“and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, instruments of darkness tell us truths” , -
Banquo on witches
Darkness
“Stars hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires” - M
“Their candles are all out” “the moon is down” “there’s husbandry in heaven” -
darkness of night by Banquo and son
“ It is a knell that summons thee to heaven, or to hell” - Macbeth on ready sign to kill
Duncan
Lady Macbeth evil parts
“My dearest partner of greatness” - addresses LM
“Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend
it” - LM about husbands personality
“Unsex me here” - LM
“Fiend-like queen”
Appearance vs Reality
“Look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t” - LM advice to M
“False face must hide, what the false heart doth know”
Lady Macbeth’s battle with guilt and regret
“Noughts had, alls spent, where our desire is got without content” - Lady Macbeth
acknowledges the personal cost of guilt for this murder, feels like nothing good
happened by murdering as they are left feeling guilt
“These deeds must not be thought after these ways;so it will make us mad” - Lady
Macbeth on not thinking of the murder to avoid guilt
“My hands are of your color” - start of Lady’s madness
“A little water clears us of this deed”
“Out damned spot! Out, I say!”
“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him “ - her
shock and unhappiness with murder
“Will these hands ne’er be clean?”
The best parts of Macbeth’s character
“Brave Macbeth” “Noble Macbeth”
“Horrid image doth unfix my hair” - Macbeth is disturbed by murder
“Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness” - LM on M
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