Macbeth Quote Identification

Fair is foul, and foul is fair,
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
3 witches -> to each other
Act 1, Scene 1

No more than Thane of Cawdor shall deceive
Our bosom interest. Go, pronounce his present death,
And with his former title greet Macbeth.
King Duncan -> Ross
Act 1, Scene 2

Stay you imperfect speakers. Tell me more.
By Sinel’s death I know I am Thane of Glamis,
But how of Cawdor? The Thane of Cawdor lives…
Macbeth -> Witches
Act 1, Scene 3

The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step
On which I must fall down or else o’erleap,
For in my way it lies.

Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires.
Macbeth -> Himself
Act 1, Scene 4

Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be
What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.
Lady Macbeth -> herself/Macbeth
Act 1, Scene 5

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.
Lady Macbeth -> Herself
Act 1, Scene 5

To beguile the time,
Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue. Look like th’ innocent flower,
But be the serpent under’t
Lady Macbeth -> Macbeth
Act 1, Scene 5

We will proceed no further in this business.
He hath honored me of late, and I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people,
Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,
Not cast aside so soon.
Macbeth -> Lady Macbeth
Act 1, Scene 7

I dreamt last night of three weird sisters:
To you they have showed some truth.
Banquo -> Macbeth
Act 2, Scene 1

Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.
Macbeth -> Himself
Act 2, Scene 1

That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold;
What hath quenched them hath given me fire.
Lady Macbeth -> herself
act 2 scene 2

Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep’”
macbeth -> lady macbeth
act 2 scene 2

Infirm of purpose!
Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead
Are but as pictures. ‘Tis the eye of childhood
That fears a painted devil.
lady macbeth -> macbeth
act 2 scene 2

Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death,
And prophesying with accents terrible…Some say, the earth
Was feverous and did shake.”
lennox -> macbeth
act 2 scene 3

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope
The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence
The life o’ th’ building.
macduff -> macbeth and lennox
act 2 scene 3

Our separate fortune
Shall keep us both the safer. Where we are
There’s daggers in men’s smiles; the near in blood,
The nearer bloody.
donalbain -> malcolm
act 2 scene 3

Thou hast it now – King, Cawdor, Glamis, all
As the Weird Women promised, and I fear
Thou played’st most foully for’t.
banquo -> himself
act 3 scene 1

We hear our bloody cousins are bestowed
In England and in Ireland, not confessing
Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers
With strange invention.
macbeth -> banquo
act 3 scene 1

To be thus is nothing,
But to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep, and in his royalty of nature
Reigns that which would be feared.
macbeth -> himself
act 3 scene 1

Better be with the dead,
Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,
Than on the torture of the mind to lie
In restless ecstasy.
macbeth -> lady macbeth
act 3 scene 2

Then comes my fit again. I had else been perfect,
Whole as the marble, founded as the rock,
As broad and general as the casing air.
But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.-But Banquo’s safe?
macbeth -> aside
act 3 scene 4

O proper stuff!
This is the very painting of your fear
This is the air-drawn dagger which you said
Led you to Duncan.
lady macbeth -> macbeth
act 3 scene 4

The time has been.
That, when the brains were out, the man would die,
And there an end. But now they rise again.
With twenty mortal murders on their crowns.
And push us from our stools.
macbeth -> lady macbeth
act 3 scene 4

I am in blood.
Stepped in so far, should I wade no more.
Returning were as tedious as do o’er.
macbeth -> lady macbeth
act 3 scene 4

Double, double, toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
3 witches -> each other
act 4 scene 1

Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware Macduff!
Beware the Thane of Fife. Dismiss me; enough.
1st apparition -> macbeth
act 4 scene 1

Be bloody, bold, and resolute! Laugh to scorn
The pow’r of man, for none of woman born
Shall harm Macbeth.
2nd apparition -> macbeth
act 4 scene 1

Macbeth shall never vanquished be
Until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill
Shall come against him.
3rd apparition -> macbeth
act 4 scene 1

His flight was madness. When our actions do not,
Our fears do make us traitors.
Lady Macduff -> Ross
act 4 scene 2

Your castle is surprised; your wife and babes
Savagely slaughtered. To relate the manner,
Were, on the quarry of these murdered deer,
To add the death of you.
ross -> macduff
act 4 scene 3

Be comforted.
Let’s make us med’cines of our great revenge,
To cure this deadly grief.
malcolm -> macduff
act 4 scene 3

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues,
Was once thought honest: you have loved him well;
He hath not touched you yet.
malcolm -> macduff
act 4 scene 3

Out, damned spot! Out I say! One-two-why then
‘Tis time to do’t. Hell is murky.

Yet who would have thought the old man to
Have has so much blood in him.

lady macbeth -> herself
act 5 scene 1

Infected minds
To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets.
More needs she the divine than the physician.
doctor -> maid
act 5 scene 1

Now does he feel his title.
Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe.
Upon a dwarfish thief.
angus -> menteith, caithness, lennox
act 5 scene 2

It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full or sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
macbeth -> seyton
act 5 scene 5

If this which is he avouches does appear,
There is nor flying hence not tarrying here
I ‘gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish th’ estate o’ the world were now undone.
macbeth -> himself
act 5 scene 5

The devil himself could not pronounce a title
More hateful to mine ear.
young siward -> macbeth
act 5 scene 7

Despair thy charm
And let the angel whom thou still last served.
Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb
Untimely ripped.
macduff -> macbeth
act 5 scene 8

Some must go off; and yet, by these I see
So great a day as this is so cheaply bought.
siward -> soldiers
act 5 scene 8