Macbeth
Important Quotes
Act I, Scenes 1-7
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.”
- Act 1, Scene 1, Lines 11-12 (I.i.11-12): the Weird Sisters (the three witches)
“And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The instruments of darkness tell us truths,
Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s
In deepest consequence.”
- Act 1, Scene 3, Lines122-126 (I.iii.122-126): Banquo to Macbeth
(aside) “This supernatural soliciting / Cannot be ill, cannot be good.”
- Act 1, Scene 3, Lines 130-131 (I.iii.130-131): Macbeth
(aside) “If chance will have me King, why chance may crown me, Without my
stir.”
- Act 1, Scene 3, Lines 142-143 (I.iii.142-143): Macbeth
“There’s no art / To find the mind’s construction in the face…”
- Act 1, Scene 4, Lines 12-13 (I.iv.12-13): Duncan
(aside) “Stars, hide your fires:
Let not light see my black and deep desires:
The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be,
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see”
- Act 1, Scene 4, Lines 51-53 (I.iv.51-53): Macbeth to Himself
“Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood;
Stop up the access and passage to remorse…”
- Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 41-45 (I.v.41-45): Lady Macbeth
Macbeth
Important Quotes
Act I, Scenes 1-7
“Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, nor heaven peep through the
blanket of the dark,
To cry ‘Hold, hold!’”
- Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 51-55 (I.v.51-55): Lady Macbeth
“… look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under’t.”
- Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 66-67 (I.v.66-67): Lady Macbeth to her husband, Macbeth
“It were done quickly: if the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch
With his surcease success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We’ld jump the life to come. But in these cases
We still have judgment here; that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor: this even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poison’d chalice
To our own lips.”
- Act 1, Scene 6, Lines 2-12 (I.vi.2-12): Macbeth to Himself
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”
- Act 1. Scene 7, Line 82 (I.vii.82): Macbeth to his wife, Lady Macbeth