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60 Macbeth Quotes
60 Macbeth Quotes
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11th Grade
01/12/2010
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Fair is foul,
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and foul is fair
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So foul and fair
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a day I have not seen
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Thrice to thine,
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and thrice to mine, and thrice again, to make up nine.
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Lesser than Macbeth,
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and greater. Not so happy, yet much happier. Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.
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If chance will have me king,
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why, chance may crown me without my stir.
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Nothing in his life
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became him like the leaving it.
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There's no art
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to find the mind's construction in the face.
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Yet I do fear thy nature.
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It is to full o' the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.
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The raven himself is hoarse
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that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements.
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Come, you spirits
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that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me, from the crown to toe, top-full of direst cruelty!
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Come to my
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woman's breast and take my milk for gall
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...look like the innocent
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flower but be the serpent under't.
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If it were done
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when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly
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I have no spur
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to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself.
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But screw your
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courage to the sticking place, and we'll not fail.
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Bring forth men-children only,
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for thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males.
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Away, and mock
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the time with fairest show; false face must hide what the false heart doth know
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Is this a dagger
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which i see before me, the handle toward my hand?
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I go, and it is done.
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The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven, or to hell.
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Had he not resembled
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my fasther as he slept, I had done't.
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Methought I heard
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a voice cry "Sleep not more! Macbeth does murder sleep"
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Glamis hath murdered sleep,
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and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more!
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The sleeping and
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the dead are but pictures
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Will all great
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Neptune's oceans wash this blood clean from my hand?
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My hands are
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of your color, but i shame to wear a heart so white
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A little water
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clears us of this deed
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To know my deed,
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'twere best no know myself
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Wake Duncan
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with thy knocking! I would thou couldst'
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Shake off this downy sleep,
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deaths counterfeit, and look on death itself!
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Had i but died
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an hour before this chance, i had lived a blessed time
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Where we are
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there's daggers in men's smiles; the near in blood, the nearer the bloody
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Thou hast it now-
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King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the Weird Women promised; and i fear thou play'dst most foully for't.
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To be thus
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is nothing, but to be safely thus
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It is concluded.
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Banquo, thy soul's flight, if it find haven, must find it tonight
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Naught's had,
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all's spent, where our desire is got without content
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We have scotched
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the snake, not killed it
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Duncan is in
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his grave; after life's fitful fever, he sleeps well
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Be innocent of
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the knowledge, dearest chuck, till thou applaud the deed
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Never shake
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thy gory locks at me
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It will have blood
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they say: blood will have blood
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Double, double toil and trouble;
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Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
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Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!
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Beware of Macduff; Beware the Thane of Fife
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Be bloody, bold, and resolute;
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laugh to scorn the power of man, for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth
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...I'll make
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assurance double sure
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Macbeth shall never vanquished
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be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him
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This avarice
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sticks deeper, grows with more pernicious root than summer-seeming lust
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Out damned spot!
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Out i say!
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Yet who would have
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thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?
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The Thane of Fife
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had a wife. Where is she now?
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Here's the smell
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of blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand
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Unnatural deeds
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do breed unnatural troubles
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I'll fight,
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till from my bones my flesh be hacked
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I have supped
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full with horrors
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She should have died
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hereafter; there would have been a time for such a word
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I 'gin to be aweary
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of the sun and wish the estate of the world were now undone
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But get thee back!
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My soul is too much charged with blood of thine already
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...Macduff was from
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his mothers womb untimely ripped
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Lay on,
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Macduff, and damned be him that first cries, "Hold, enough"
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