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We’ve pulled together all of the top Macbeth quotes below from primary and secondary characters – as well as a good selection from the eponymous hero and his wife – shown in order of the quote appearing in the play, listing the character speaking along with act and scene.
- Mabeth Quotes in Modern English
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- Macbeth PDF
Sennet sounded. Enter MACBETH, as king, LADY MACBETH, as...
- Something Wicked This Way Comes
The quote is. Something wicked this way comes is one line of...
- If It Were Done When 'Tis Done
Macbeth climbed up to the battlements and looked up at the...
- Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
‘Tomorrow, And Tomorrow, And Tomorrow’, Spoken by Macbeth,...
- Double, Double Toil and Trouble
They accost him as he returns from battle and tell him that...
- Act 5, Scene 1
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- Mabeth Quotes in Modern English
Over the years No Sweat Shakespeare users have asked us to translate many quotes from Macbeth into plain English. The list below links to the most popular Macbeth quotes and their modern English translation, whilst underneath those is a selection of other, shorted Macbeth quotes translated.
These lines form one of the most famous speeches in the play, revealing Macbeth’s grief as well as his pessimism and despair. He says that life is pointless, meaningless, and that it’s over too quickly. Macbeth’s realization of the great evil he has done, which has brought about his wife’s death, influences this speech as well.
As you may have gathered by now, many of the most memorable quotations from Macbeth involve blood. In this quotation from Act 3, Macbeth acknowledges that he has already committed so many vile deeds that he may as well continue: he is beyond redemption, and there’s no way back now.
Enjoy these 'Macbeth' quotes from the Shakespearean play about death, guilt, ambition, power and more. Shakespeare's wordplay, rhyming couplets and cadence of iambic pentameter give the play an...
We’ve compiled 80 important Macbeth quotes across various themes to help inspire some ideas, such as ambition and power, and we’ve even identified the techniques in each of the quotes. Keep scrolling to find the best quotes from Macbeth for your essay!
Essential quotes from William Shakespeare's Macbeth are analyzed in context of the work as a whole