Macbeth Key Quotations

I have prepared a list of key quotations that you should learn as part of your revision. Focus your time on quotations that can be applied to a range of potential exam topics and have interesting details to analyse. Experiment with different ways of memorising them in order to work out which works best for you personally: flashcards; repetition; quizzes; peer teaching; look, say, cover, check; song lyrics etc.

Quotations - Click on links below to access the discussion board comments
‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair’
‘smoked with bloody execution’
‘Let not light see my black and deep desires’
‘unsex me here’ ‘fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / Of direst cruelty’
‘look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under't’
‘our honour'd hostess!’
‘Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself’
‘A dagger of the mind, a false creation’
‘Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?’
‘here's an equivocator’
‘Most sacrilegious murder’
‘A falcon, towering in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.’
‘O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!’
‘This is the very painting of your fear: / This is the air-drawn dagger’
‘for none of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth.’
‘His flight was madness’ ‘He is noble, wise, judicious’
‘your wife and babes / Savagely slaughter'd’
‘Dispute it like a man.’
‘Out, damned spot!’
like a giant's robe / Upon a dwarfish thief’
‘I have supp'd full with horrors’
‘Life's but a walking shadow’
‘this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen’