GCSE AQA 'Macbeth': Key Quotations

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"Something wicked this way comes" (4.1)

"Something wicked this way comes" (4.1)

Second Weird Sister

"Out, damned spot! out, I say!" (5.1.)

Lady Macbeth

"The milk of human kindness" (1.5)

Lady Macbeth

"When shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain?" (1.1)

Weird Sisters

“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t.” (1.5)

Lady Macbeth

"Fair is foul, and foul is fair” (1.1)

Weird Sisters

"Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts! unsex me here..." (1:5)

Lady Macbeth

"You should be women, / And yet your beards forbid me to interpret / That you are so" (1:2)

Banquo

“Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires” (1:4)

Macbeth

“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown” (3:1)

Macbeth

"By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes." (4:1)

Second Witch

"Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly! Thou may’st revenge..." (3:3)

Banquo

"I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition" (1:7)

Macbeth

"To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus" (3.1)

Macbeth

"What’s done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed" (5.1)

Lady Macbeth

"What, all my pretty chickens and their dam At one fell swoop" (4.3)

Macduff

"Every one did bear Thy praises in his kingdom’s great defense" (1.3)

Ross

"Our duties are to your throne and state children and servants" (1.5)

Macbeth

"O nation miserable With an untitled tyrant, bloody-sceptered" (4.3)

Macduff

"Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?" (2:2)

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