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Macbeth · William Shakespeare

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Setting: Dunsinane Castle

36 quotes · Page 3 of 4

Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath, / Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.
Act V, Scene 6 · Macduff · ★★★★☆
Thou wast born of woman. / But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, / Brandish’d by man that’s of a woman born.
Act V, Scene 7 · Macbeth · ★★★★☆
What’s he / That was not born of woman? Such a one / Am I to fear, or none.
Act V, Scene 7 · Macbeth · ★★★★☆
They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, / But, bear-like I must fight the course.—
Act V, Scene 7 · Macbeth · ★★★★☆
Hail, King, for so thou art. Behold, where stands / Th’ usurper’s cursed head: the time is free.
Act V, Scene 8 · Macduff · ★★★★☆
Turn, hell-hound, turn!
Act V, Scene 8 · Macduff · ★★★★☆
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane, / And thou oppos’d, being of no woman born, / Yet I will try the last. Before my body / I throw my warlike shield: lay on, Macduff; / And damn’d be him that first cries, “Hold, enough!”
Act V, Scene 8 · Macbeth · ★★★★☆
A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of watching.
Act V, Scene 1 · ★★★☆☆
More needs she the divine than the physician.— / God, God, forgive us all!
Act V, Scene 1 · ★★★☆☆
The devil damn thee black, thou cream-fac'd loon! Where gott'st thou that goose look?
Act V, Scene 3 · Macbeth · ★★★☆☆

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36 quotes · Page 3 of 4

Make all our trumpets speak; give them all breath, / Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death.
Act V, Scene 6 · Macduff · ★★★★☆
Thou wast born of woman. / But swords I smile at, weapons laugh to scorn, / Brandish’d by man that’s of a woman born.
Act V, Scene 7 · Macbeth · ★★★★☆
What’s he / That was not born of woman? Such a one / Am I to fear, or none.
Act V, Scene 7 · Macbeth · ★★★★☆
They have tied me to a stake. I cannot fly, / But, bear-like I must fight the course.—
Act V, Scene 7 · Macbeth · ★★★★☆
Hail, King, for so thou art. Behold, where stands / Th’ usurper’s cursed head: the time is free.
Act V, Scene 8 · Macduff · ★★★★☆
Turn, hell-hound, turn!
Act V, Scene 8 · Macduff · ★★★★☆
Though Birnam wood be come to Dunsinane, / And thou oppos’d, being of no woman born, / Yet I will try the last. Before my body / I throw my warlike shield: lay on, Macduff; / And damn’d be him that first cries, “Hold, enough!”
Act V, Scene 8 · Macbeth · ★★★★☆
A great perturbation in nature, to receive at once the benefit of sleep, and do the effects of watching.
Act V, Scene 1 · ★★★☆☆
More needs she the divine than the physician.— / God, God, forgive us all!
Act V, Scene 1 · ★★★☆☆
The devil damn thee black, thou cream-fac'd loon! Where gott'st thou that goose look?
Act V, Scene 3 · Macbeth · ★★★☆☆