Famous Lines from Macbeth:

1. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “…but tis strange! And oftentimes to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence.”

2. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.”

3. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses.”

4. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “He’s here in double trust: First, as I am his kinsman and his subject--strong both against the deed; then as his host, who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself.”

5. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “When Duncan is asleep, his two chamberlains will I with wine and wassail so convince, that memory, the warder of the brain, shall be but a fume, and the receipt of reason a limebeck (memory) only.”

6. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “…or art thou a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain? I see thee yet, in form as palpable as this which now I draw.”

7. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “Retire we to our chamber. A little water clears us of this deed.”

8. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “Where we are, there’s daggers in men’s smiles; the near in blood, the nearer bloody.”

9. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • Thou hast it now--King, Cawdor, Glamis, all as the Weird Women promised, and I fear thou played’st most foully for’t. Yet it was said it should not stand in thy posterity, but that myself should be the root and father of many kings.”

10. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “Naught’s had, all’s spent, where our desire is got without our content. ‘Tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.”

11. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “Then, prophet-like, they hailed him father to a line of kings. Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren scepter in my grip, then to be wrenched with an unlineal hand, no son of mine succeeding.”

12. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “Avaunt, and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee. Thy bones are marrowless; thy blood is cold; thou hast no speculation in those eyes which thou dost glare with.”

13. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “I am in blood stepped so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er.”

14. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “Wisdom? To leave his wife, to leave his babes, his mansion and his titles in a place from whence himself does fly? He loves us not.”

15. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “It is myself I mean, in whom I know all the particulars of vice so grafted that, when they shall be opened, black Macbeth will seem as white as snow…”

16. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “Out damned spot, out I say!…Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”

17. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “Let every soldier hew him down a bow and bear ‘t before him. Thereby shall we shadow the numbers of our host and make discovery err in report of us.”

18. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out brief candle!...

19. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “…Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”

20. Famous Lines from Macbeth: • “Despair thy charm, and let the angel whom thou hast served tell thee Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped.”