Macbeth Quotes

Quote 1: "When shall we three meet again / In thunder, lightning, or in rain?" Act 1, Scene 1, lines 1-2

Quote 2: "screw [his] courage to the sticking-place." Act 1, Scene 7, line 60

Quote 3: "not confessing / Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers / With strange invention." Act 3, Scene 1, lines 31-3

Quote 4: "Things without all remedy / Should be without regard: what's done is done." Act 3, Scene 2, lines 11-2

Quote 5: "And you all know, security / Is mortals' chiefest enemy." Act 3, Scene 5, lines 32-3

Quote 6: "Be bloody, bold, and resolute; laugh to scorn / The power of man, for none of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth." Act 4, Scene 1, lines 79-81

Quote 7: "Macbeth shall never vanquished be until / Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill / Shall come against him." Act 4, Scene 1, lines 92-4

Quote 8: "The flighty purpose never is o'ertook / Unless the deed go with it: from this moment / The very firstlings of my heart shall be / The firstlings of my hand." Act 4, Scene 1, lines 145-8

Quote 9: "when our actions do not, / Our fears do make us traitors." Act 4, Scene 2, lines 2-3

Quote 10: "Out damned spot! out, I say! . . . who would have thought the old man to have had so / much blood in him." Act 5, Scene 1, lines 34-9

Quote 11: "Out, out, brief candle! / Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage / And then is heard no more: it is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / Signifying nothing." Act 5, Scene 5, lines 23-8