Over 50 of the best selected quotes for each theme in Macbeth, covering all acts and the themes of Gender, Love, Nature, Greed, Betrayal, Light, Supernatural, Power, Sleep, Violence, Kingship, Ambition, Appearances, Guilt
Macbeth Character Revision and Analysis with Quotes
GCSE Grade 9 ‘Macbeth’(thesis,quotes,analysis)
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Macbeth Quote Bank
Theme Quotes
Gender Unsex me here- Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5
O gentle lady, ’tis not for you to hear what I can speak. The repetition in a woman’s ear would murder as it
fell- Macduff, Act 2 Scene 3
You would be so much more the man- Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 7
Are you a man?- Lady Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 4
Wisdom? To leave his wife… his babes… his titles in a place from whence himself does fly? He loves us not-
Lady Macduff, Act 4 Scene 2
Bring forth men-children only, for the undaunted mettle should composé nothing but males- Macbeth, Act
1 Scene 7
Love My dearest partner of greatness- Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5
She should have died hereafter- Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 5
O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife- Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 2
So I shall, love- Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 2
Nature A falcon has been savagely killed by an owl- Old man, Act 2 Scene 4
Horses have been eating each other- Old man, Act 2 Scene 4
Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it- Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5
Greed The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I fall down or else o’erleap- Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 4
Betrayal No man of woman-born shall harm Macbeth- The witches, Act 4 Scene 1
A gentleman whom I built an absolute trust- Duncan, Act 1 Scene 4
Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it- Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5
Where we are, there’s daggers in men’s smiles- Donaldbain, Act 2 Scene 3
Who can be… loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man.- Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 3
Light Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires- Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 4
Supernatural In thunder, lightning, or in rain?- The witches, Act 1 Scene 1
Is this a dagger I see before me?- Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 1
Never shake thy gory locks at me!- Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 4
There to meet with Macbeth- The witches, Act 1 Scene 1
Power All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!- The witches, Act 1 Scene 3
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical- Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3
Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it- Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5
Leave all the rest to me- Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5
When you durst do it, then you were a man.- Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 7
Sleep What’s done cannot be undone, to bed, to bed, to bed- Lady Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 2
You lack the season of all natures, sleep- Lady Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 4
Sleep no more- Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 3
Macbeth does murder sleep- Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 3
Violence Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?- Lady Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 1
My slaughterous thoughts- Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 5
I'm afraid to think what I have done- Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2
Kingship All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter!- The witches, Act 1 Scene 3
Fit to be king? You’re not fit to live!- Macduff, Act 4 Scene 3
The devil himself could not pronounce a title more hateful to mine ear.- Young Siward, Act 5 Scene7
Ambition All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Glamis!All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! All hail,
Macbeth, that shalt be King hereafter!- The witches, Act 1 Scene 3
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical- Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3
We have scorched the snake, not killed it- Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 2
Screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail- Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 7
The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap- Macbeth, Act 1 Scene
4
Appearances Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?- Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3
Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t- Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5
False face must hide what the false heart doth know- Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 7
Guilt Is this a dagger which I see before me?- Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 1
Macbeth does murder sleep.- Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2
My soul is too much charged with blood of thine already.- Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 8
Hell is murky.- Lady Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 1
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