Quotes From Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'.

"Present fears are less than horrible imaginings."

—Macbeth,
Act I, Scene 3.


"Shakes so my single state of man
That function is smothered in surmise,
And nothing is but what is not."

—Macbeth,
Act I, Scene 3.


"There’s no art
To find the mind's construction in the face.
He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust."

—Macbeth,
Act I, Scene 4.


"Bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue. Look like th' innocent flower,
But be the serpent under 't."

—Macbeth,
Act I, Scene 5.


"Prithee, peace.
I dare do all that may become a man."

—Macbeth,
Act I, Scene 7.


"But screw your courage to the sticking place
And we’ll not fail."

—Macbeth,
Act I, Scene 7.


"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."

—Macbeth,
Act I, Scene 7.


"The sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil."

—Macbeth,
Act II, Scene 2.


"Our separated fortune
Shall keep us both the safer. Where we are,
There’s daggers in men’s smiles."

—Macbeth,
Act II, Scene 3.


"Avaunt, and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee.
Thy bones are marrowless; thy blood is cold,—
Thou hast no speculation in those eyes
Which thou dost glare with."

—Macbeth,
Act III, Scene 1.


"Good things of day begin to droop and drowse,
Whiles night's black agents to their preys do rouse,—
Thou marvel'st at my words, but hold thee still.
Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill."

—Macbeth,
Act III, Scene 2.


"Double, double toil and trouble,—
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake
In the cauldron boil and bake.
Eye of newt and toe of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork and blindworm's sting,
Lizard's leg and howlet's wing."

—Macbeth,
Act IV, Scene 1.


"How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags?
What is 't you do?"

—Macbeth,
Act IV, Scene 1.


"When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors."

—Macbeth,
Act IV, Scene 2.


"All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand."

—Macbeth,
Act V, Scene 1.


"You see her eyes are open.
What is it she does now?
Look how she rubs her hands."

—Macbeth,
Act V, Scene 1.


"There's knocking at the gate. Come, come, come, come. Give me your hand. What’s done cannot be undone."

—Macbeth,
Act V, Scene 1.


"Foul whisp'rings are abroad. Unnatural deeds
Do breed unnatural troubles. Infected minds
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets."

—Macbeth,
Act V, Scene 1.


"Out, out, brief candle!
Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

—Macbeth,
Act V, Scene 5.


"I bear a charmèd life, which must not yield
To one of woman born."

—Macbeth,
Act V, Scene VIII.


"Despair thy charm,
And let the angel whom thou still hast served
Tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb
Untimely ripped."

—Macbeth,
Act V, Scene VIII.