Irony Quotes in Macbeth

Macbeth · William Shakespeare

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No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive / Our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death, / And with his former title greet Macbeth.
Act I, Scene 2 · Duncan · ★★★★☆
Nothing in his life / Became him like the leaving it; he died / As one that had been studied in his death, / To throw away the dearest thing he ow’d / As ’twere a careless trifle.
Act I, Scene 4 · Malcolm · ★★★★☆
All our service, / In every point twice done, and then done double, / Were poor and single business to contend / Against those honours deep and broad wherewith / Your Majesty loads our house
Act I, Scene 6 · Lady Macbeth · ★★★★☆
This guest of summer, / The temple-haunting martlet, does approve, / By his loved mansionry, that the heaven's breath / Smells wooingly here: no jutty, frieze, / Buttress, nor coign of vantage, but this bird / hath made his pendant bed and procreant cradle.
Act I, Scene 6 · Banquo · ★★★★☆
A little water clears us of this deed: / How easy is it then!
Act II, Scene 2 · Lady Macbeth · ★★★★☆
These deeds must not be thought / After these ways; so, it will make us mad.
Act II, Scene 2 · Lady Macbeth · ★★★★☆
If a man were porter of hell gate, he should have old turning the key.
Act II, Scene 3 · ★★★★☆
The labour we delight in physics pain.
Act II, Scene 3 · Macbeth · ★★★★☆
It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul’s flight, / If it find heaven, must find it out tonight.
Act III, Scene 1 · Macbeth · ★★★★☆
Better be with the dead, / Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, / Than on the torture of the mind to lie / In restless ecstasy.
Act III, Scene 2 · Macbeth · ★★★★☆

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