Macbeth
Macbeth
by William Shakespeare

Macbeth Quotes

Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Macbeth.

Fate and Free Will Quotes

CAPTAIN And Fortune, on his damned quarry smiling, Show'd like a rebel's whore. But all's too weak; For brave Macbeth -well he deserves that name- Disdaining Fortune, with his brandish'd steel, Whi...

Ambition Quotes

BANQUO […] My noble partner You greet with present grace and great prediction Of noble having and of royal hope, That he seems rapt withal. To me you speak not. If you can look into the seeds...

Power Quotes

Third Witch All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter! […] Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none: So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo! (1.3.4-6)

Versions of Reality Quotes

ALL Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Hover through the fog and filthy air. (1.1.1)

Gender Quotes

BANQUO You should be women, And yet your beards forbid me to interpret That you are so. (1.3.1)

The Supernatural Quotes

Thunder and lightning. Enter three Witches First Witch When shall we three meet again In thunder, lightning, or in rain? Second Witch When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost and won....

Violence Quotes

DUNCAN What bloody man is that? He can report, As seemeth by his plight, of the revolt The newest state. (1.2.1)

Time Quotes

My noble partner You greet with present grace and great prediction Of noble having and of royal hope, That he seems rapt withal: to me you speak not. If you can look into the seeds of time, And say...