'Fair is foul, and foul is fair'
Witches- Paradox
'When the hurlyburly's done, When the battle's lost or won'
Witches- When the storm or battle is done
'For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name)
Duncan- His opinion on Macbeth
'with his brandished steel, Which smoked like bloody execution, Like Valour's minion'
Captain- Description of Macbeth in battle
'O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!'
Duncan- Exclamation of Macbeth
'Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.- So all hail Macbeth and Banquo!'
Witch 3- The final prophecy- To Banquo
'Have we eaten on the insane root that takes reason prisoner?'
Banquo- Worries about the witches propecies
'Two truths are told, as happy prologue to the swelling act of imperial theme'
Macbeth- Considers whether to kill Duncan or not
'This supernatural soliciting can not be ill, cannot be good'
Macbeth- Macbeth is confused
''Why do I yield to that suggestion, whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs?'
Macbeth- Macbeth is scared of thinking of murdering the king
'Yet I do fear thy nature; It is too full o'the milk of human kindness. To catch the nearest way.'
Lady Macbeth- Lady Macbeth complains about Macbeth being scared to kill the king'
'That I may pour my spirits in thine ear.'
Lady Macbeth- Lady Macbeth hopes she can persuade Macbeth to do the deed
'The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements.'
Lady Macbeth- Lady Macbeth is excited that Duncan is arriving
'unsex me here [...] take my milk for gall'
Lady Macbeth- Lady Macbeth wants to be like a man to do the deed
'Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't'
Lady Macbeth- 'Look kind but really, be a murderer'
'If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well'
Macbeth- 'Lets get it over with quickly'
'He's here in double trust [...] I am his kinsman [and his] host.'
Macbeth- Macbeth doesn't want too kill the king as the king trusts him
'So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation'
Macbeth- Macbeth praises the king
'I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, And falls on the other -'
Macbeth- Macbeth has no will to kill the king but is ambitious to be the king
'Art thou afeared To be the same in thine own act and valour As thou art in desire?'
Lady Macbeth- Lady Macbeth calls Macbeth a coward
'When you durst do it, then you were a man'
Lady Macbeth- Lady Macbeth criticises Macbeth's manhood
'I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from its boneless gums, And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn'
Lady Macbeth- Lady Macbeth suffers the pain of her lost baby
'Screw your courage to the sticking-place.'
Lady Macbeth- Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth to 'man up'
'I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat'
Macbeth- Macbeth decides to kill Duncan