Macbeth scenes

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•  Act 1

• Scene 1: Witches talking about battle

• Scene 2: Talks about Macbeth fighting and Thane of Cawdor  betrayal

• "Fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air" - Witches

• Scene 3: Macbeth and Banquo meet Witches and learn first prophecy

• "For brave Macbeth -  well he deserves that name" -  Capatain

• "What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won" - Duncan

•  "Like Valour's minion" - Captain

• "That not look like th'inhabitants o'th'earth" ... "you should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so" - Banquo

• " All hail Macbeth, hail to thee (Thane of Glamis, Thane of Cawdor, that shalt be king hereafter)" - Witches

• "Or have we eaten on the insane root that takes reason prisoner" - Banquo

• Scene 4: Duncan congratulates Macbeth and announces that Malcolm will be king after him

• "Cannot be ill, Cannot be good" ... "If good why do I yield to that suggestion, whose horrid image that doth unfix my hair" - Macbeth

•  "If chance will have me king then chance may crown my without my stir" - Macbeth

• "Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires" - Macbeth

• Scene 5: Lady Macbeth reads the letter, prays to spirits, convinces Macbeth to kill Duncan

• "I fear thy nature, it is too full of the milk of human kindness" - Lady Macbeth

• "That I may pout my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue" - Lady Macbeth

• "Unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty" - LM

• "Stop th'access and passage to remorse" - LM

• "That my keen knife see not the wound it makes" - LM

• "Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under't"

• Scene 6: Duncan comes to the Macbeths' castle

• Scene 7: Macbeth debates whether to murder Duncan. Lady Macbeth manipulates him

• "Bloody instructions, which being taught, return to plague th'inventor" - Macbeth

• "He's here in double trust: First I am his kinsman and his subject" -Macbeth

• "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself and lands on the other" - Macbeth

• "We will proceed no further in this business" - Macbeth

• "Art thou afeard" .. "And live like a coward in thine own esteem" LM

• " Have plucked my nipple form his boneless gums and dashed the brains out"  - LM

• "False face must hide what false heart doth know" - Macbeth

• Macbeth

• Act 2

• Scene 1: Macbeth and Banquo talk, Macbeth sees the dagger

• "Is this a dagger I see before me" - Macbeth

• "But still keep my bosom franchised and allegiance clear"  - Banquo

• Scene 2: The Macbeths kill Duncan

• "The wolf, whose howl's watch, thus with his stealthy pace" - Macbeth

• "Had he not resembled my father as he slept" - Lady Macbeth

• "Methought I heard a voice cry 'sleep no more: Macbeth does murder sleep" - Macbeth

• "this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine making the green one red"  - Macbeth

• "A little water clears us of this deed"  - Lady Macbeth

• "Wake Duncan with thy knocking: I would thou couldst," - Macbeth

• Scene 3: Porter fun, people find the body, Macbeth blames it on the guards, Malcolm and Donaldbain run away.

• "Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope" - Macduff

• "Let's away" - Donaldbain

• "There's daggers in men's smiles" - Donaldbain

• "This murderous shaft that's shot hath not yet lighted, and our safest way is to avoid the aim" - Malcolm

• Scene 4: Macbeth becomes king of Scotland

• "Those that Macbeth hath slain"  - Macduff

• "Are stol'n away and fled, which puts upon them suspicion of the deed" - Macduff

• " The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth" - Ross

• Act 3

• Scene 1: Macbeth decides to kill Banquo and hires murderers

• " I fear thou played'st most foully for't" - Banquo

• "Ride you this afternoon"..."Goes Fleance with you" - Macbeth

• "To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus"  - Macbeth

• "Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren sceptre in my gripe" - Macbeth

• " I will advise you where to plant yourselves..." - Macbeth

• Scene 2: Both the Macbeths are troubled and fearful, He rants to his wife.

• "Noughts had all spent, where our desire is got without content" - LM

• "Better be with the dead whom we, to gain our peace have sent to peace" - Macbeth

• "sleek o'er your rugged looks, be bright and jovial among your guests tonight" - Macbeth

• "And make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are" - Macbeth

• "O, full of scorpions is my mind dear wife!" - Macbeth

• Scene 3: Banquo gets killed, Fleance escapes.

• Scene 4: Murderers tell Macbeth Fleance escaped, Macbeth sees Banquo's ghost

• "Then comes my fit again"..." But now i am cabined, cribbed, and confined, bound to saucy doubts" - Macbeth

• "Which of you have done this"  - Macbeth

• "Gentlemen, rise his highness is not well" - Lady Macbeth

• "Are you a man" - Lady Macbeth

• "This is the very painting of your fear" - Lady Macbeth

• "murders have been performed"..." But now they rise again" - Macbeth

• "But as a thing of custom" - LM

• "It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood" - Macbeth

• "We are yet but young in deed" - Macbeth

• Scene 5: Witches speak with Hecate

• "He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear his hopes 'bove wisdon, grace, and fear" - Hecate

• Scene 6: Lennox and Lord talk about Macbeth's tyranny

• "Thither Macduff is gone to pray the holy king upon his aid" - Lord

•  Act 4

• Scene 1: Macbeth meets witches again and they tell him the new prophecy.

• "By the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes" - Second witch

• "I conjure you" "Answer me" - Macbeth

• "Beware the Thane of Fife" 

• "For none born of woman shall harm Macbeth"

• "Macbeth shall never be vanquished until the Great Birnham Wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him"

•  "Deny me this and an eternal curse fall upon you" - Macbeth

• "And damned all that trust them"

• " Seize upon Fife; give to th'edge o'th'sword his wife, his babes"

• Scene 2: Ross  betrays Lady Macduff and she and her family are murdered.

• "But cruel are the times when we are traitors" - Ross

• "Yes, he is dead" "Why, I can buy me twenty at any market" - L Macduff

• Scene 3: Macduff convinces Malcolm to come back to Scotland and Ross tells Macduff about his family

• "Black Macbeth will seem as white as snow" - Malcolm

• "Devil more damned in evils to top Macbeth" - Macduff

• "but at his touch, such sanctity hath given his hand"  -Doctor

• "Where dead man's knell is there scarce asked for who" - Ross

• "let grief convert to anger"  - Malcolm

• Act 5 

• Scene 1: Lady Macbeth crazy with guilt seeing things.

• "She has her light by her continually" - Gentlewoman

• "Out damned Spot" Lady Macbeth

• "Unnatural deeds to breed unnatural troubles" - Docter

• Scene 2:English come with Macduff and Malcolm to prepare against Macbeth

• Scene 3: Macbeth prepares himself to fight

• "I'll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked" - Mabeth

• Scene 4: Soldiers carry trees from birham wood

• Scene 5: Messenger tells Macbeth about the moving wood

• "She should have died hereafter" - Macbeth

• "Out, out, brief candle, Life's but a walking shadow" -  Macbeth

• Scene 6: English soldiers with Malcolm and Macduff come to battle

• Scene 7: Battle stuff, Macbeth kills young siward, Macduff seeks only Macbeth

• "My wife and children's ghosts haunt me still" - Macduff

• Scene 8: Macbeth and Macduff showdown

• "Macduff was from his mother's womb untimely ripped" - Macduff

• " That keep the word of promise to our ear and break it ot our hope. I'll not fight eith thee" - Macbeth

• "Damned be him that first cries hold, enough" - Macbeth

• Scene 9: Macduff comes back with Macbeth's head and Malcolm becomes king.