TOP QUOTES IN “MACBETH”
1. “So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”
- M, Act 1.3, line 36
2. “If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir.”
- M, Act 1.3, lines 42-3
3. “That is step on which I must fall down or else o’erleap, for in my way it lies.”
- M, Act 1.4, lines 48-9
4. “Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full of the milk of human kindness.”
- Lady M, Act 1.5, line 15
5. “Look like th’ innocent flower but be the serpent under’t.”
- Lady M, Act 1.6, lines 63-4
6. Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts: unsex me here and fill me from crown to toe topfull with direst cruelty.”
- Lady M , Act 1.5, lines 48-9
7. “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only my vaulting ambition.”
- M, Act 1.7, lines 26-7
8. “Thou marshallest me the way I was going.”
- M, Act 2.1, line 42
9. “Sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more.”
- M, Act 2.2, lines 38-9
10. “A little water clears us of this deed.”
- Lady M, Act 2.2, line 70
11. “To be thus is nothing; but to be safely thus.”
- M, Act 3.1, lines 49-50
12. “We have scorched the snake, not killed it.”
- M, Act 3.2, line 13
13. “ “I am in blood steeped so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as going o’er.”
- M, Act 3.4, lines 136-7
14. “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
- Lady M, Act 5.1, lines 42-23
15. “Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.”
- M, Act 5.5, lines 23-5