Macbeth Key Quotes!
Act 1 Important Quotes
Act 1 Scene 1 *
Act 1 Scene 2 * “If I say sooth, I must report they were / As cannons over-charg’d with double cracks; / So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.” (1.2.36-38) ON ACT 1 TEST
Act 1 Scene 3 * “But ‘tis strange, / And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us / In deepest consequence.” (1.3.121-125) ON ACT 1 TEST * “New honours come upon him / Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould / But with the aid of use.” (1.3.143-145) ON ACT 1 TEST
Act 1 Scene 4 * “Stars, hide your fires, / Let not light see my black and deep desires, / The eye wink at the hand.” (1.4.50-52) ON ACT 1 TEST
Act 1 Scene 5 * “What thou wouldst highly / That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, / And yet wouldst wrongly win.” (1.5.19-21) ON ACT 1 TEST * “Look like th’innocent flower, / But be the serpent under’t.” (1.5.64-65) ON ACT 1 TEST
Act 1 Scene 6 *
Act 1 Scene 7 * “I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Valuting ambition which o’erleaps itself / And falls on th’other-“ (1.7.25-28)
Act 2 Important Quotes
Act 2 Scene 1 * "There's husbandry in heaven, / Their candles are all out." (2.14-5) * "Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?" (2.1.37-39) ON ACT 2 TEST * "I see thee still, / And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, / Which was not so before. There's no such thing: / It is the bloody business which informs / Thus to mine eyes. " (2.1.45-49)
Act 2 Scene 2 * "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No: this is my hand will rather / The multitudinous seas incarnadine, / Making the green one red." (2.2.63-66) ON ACT 2 TEST
Act 2 Scene 3 * "The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees/ Is left this vault to brag of."
Act 1 Scene 1 *
Act 1 Scene 2 * “If I say sooth, I must report they were / As cannons over-charg’d with double cracks; / So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.” (1.2.36-38) ON ACT 1 TEST
Act 1 Scene 3 * “But ‘tis strange, / And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us / In deepest consequence.” (1.3.121-125) ON ACT 1 TEST * “New honours come upon him / Like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould / But with the aid of use.” (1.3.143-145) ON ACT 1 TEST
Act 1 Scene 4 * “Stars, hide your fires, / Let not light see my black and deep desires, / The eye wink at the hand.” (1.4.50-52) ON ACT 1 TEST
Act 1 Scene 5 * “What thou wouldst highly / That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, / And yet wouldst wrongly win.” (1.5.19-21) ON ACT 1 TEST * “Look like th’innocent flower, / But be the serpent under’t.” (1.5.64-65) ON ACT 1 TEST
Act 1 Scene 6 *
Act 1 Scene 7 * “I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Valuting ambition which o’erleaps itself / And falls on th’other-“ (1.7.25-28)
Act 2 Important Quotes
Act 2 Scene 1 * "There's husbandry in heaven, / Their candles are all out." (2.14-5) * "Or art thou but / A dagger of the mind, a false creation, / Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?" (2.1.37-39) ON ACT 2 TEST * "I see thee still, / And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood, / Which was not so before. There's no such thing: / It is the bloody business which informs / Thus to mine eyes. " (2.1.45-49)
Act 2 Scene 2 * "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand? No: this is my hand will rather / The multitudinous seas incarnadine, / Making the green one red." (2.2.63-66) ON ACT 2 TEST
Act 2 Scene 3 * "The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees/ Is left this vault to brag of."