Macbeth Quotes

The Prince of Cumberland!—That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, / For in my way it lies.

’Tis unnatural, / Even like the deed that’s done. On Tuesday last, / A falcon, towering in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d.

Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, / As the Weird Women promis’d; and, I fear, / Thou play’dst most foully for’t;

Blood hath been shed ere now, i’ th’ olden time, / Ere humane statute purg’d the gentle weal; / Ay, and since too, murders have been perform’d / Too terrible for the ear: the time has been, / That, when the brains were out, the man would die, / And there an end; but now they rise again, / With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, / And push us from our stools.

What, will the line stretch out to th' crack of doom?

He cannot buckle his distemper'd cause / Within the belt of rule.

Hail, King, for so thou art. Behold, where stands / Th’ usurper’s cursed head: the time is free.

We will establish our estate upon / Our eldest, Malcolm; whom we name hereafter / The Prince of Cumberland: which honour must / Not unaccompanied invest him only, / But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine / On all deservers.—

Horrible sight!—Now I see ’tis true; / For the blood-bolter’d Banquo smiles upon me, / And points at them for his.—

I will not yield, / To kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet, / And to be baited with the rabble’s curse.