'In heaven their candles are all out'
Banquo- Banquo says that all is bad due to the murder.
'still keep My bosom franchised and allegiance clear'
Banquo- Banquo says he will follow Macbeth as king as long as he gets there fairly.
'Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle towards my hand?'
Macbeth- The dagger soliloquy
'a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?'
Macbeth- Macbeth believes the dagger is just a hallucination.
'hear it not Duncan, for it is a knell, that summons thee to Heaven, or to Hell.
Macbeth- Macbeth's final words before killing Duncan.
'I have drugged their possets'
Lady Macbeth- Lady Macbeth says she has drugged the guard's drinks.
'Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done't.'
Lady Macbeth- Lady Macbeth gives an excuse for why she couldn't kill the king.
'these hangman's hands'
Macbeth- 'With my murdering hands'
'But wherefore could not I pronounce 'Amen'? [...] Stuck in my throat.'
Macbeth- Macbeth feels so much guilt that he cannot say the words of God.
'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murther sleep!'
Macbeth- Macbeth thinks he will never sleep again.
'You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brainsickly of things.'
Lady Macbeth- Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to stop being cowardly.
'wash this filthy witness from your hand.'
Lady Macbeth- Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to wash the blood from his hands.
'Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?'
Macbeth- 'Will even the great ocean remove my guilt (blood)?'
'My hands are of your colour, but I shame To wear a heart so white.'
Lady Macbeth- Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth that she would be ashamed to have so much regret.
'A little water clears us of this deed.'
Lady Macbeth- The murder can be easily disguised.
'Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!'
Macbeth- 'I wish this knocking would wake Duncan up'
'Enter MACBETH, in a dressing-gown.'
Stage Direction- Macbeth wears...
'The night has been unruly [...] Lamentings heard i'th'air, strange screams of death.'
Lennox- Lennox explains how it was a horrible night with screams and bad weather.
'Most sacrilegious murthur hath broke ope The Lord's anointed temple, and stole thence The life o'th' building.'
Macduff- Macduff discovers the murder.
'O gentle lady, 'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak: The repetition, in a woman's ear, Would murther as it fell.'
Macduff- Macduff says that a woman could not hear what had happened as it was so awful.
'Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time'
Macbeth- Macbeth wishes he could have died before he murdered Duncan.
'Who can be wise, amazed, temp'rate and furious, Loyal and neutral, in a moment? No man'
Macbeth- Macbeth gives excuses for why he killed the guards.
'Here lay Duncan, His silver skin laced with his golden blood, And his gashed stabs'
Macbeth- Macbeth says that the dead Duncan looked like a break in nature.
'There's daggers in men's smiles'
Donaldbain- Donaldbain says that not everybody is how they first appear (hinting that he believed Macbeth did the deed).