Act 1 Macbeth Quotes

I felt like I was hobbling, like one oof the old crones from Act I of Macbeth - God knows my hair felt scraggy enough that I must have looked the part.

I pray you school yourself. [MacBeth, Act 1V, Scene 2]

Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it. William Shakespeare Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 5

Besides, he was suitably impressed that we chose Scotland. Puts it down to research for the role." Lainie halted in her sneaky exploration of the small of his back. "I hope not. I don't really see us as the Macbeths." "No. They got on fairly well until the regicide." "Beatrice and Benedick, maybe. With more bickering. And fewer rhyming couplets.

There's no art / to find the mind's construction in the face

I would not have such a heart in my bosom for the dignity of the whole body. (Act5, Scene1)

To do evil a human being must first of all believe that what he’s doing is good, or else that it’s a well-considered act in conformity with natural law. Fortunately, it is in the nature of the human being to seek a justification for his actions. Macbeth’s self-justifications were feeble—and his conscience devoured him. Yes, even Iago was a little lamb too. The imagination and the spiritual strength of Shakespeare’s evildoers stopped short at a dozen corpses. Because they had no ideology. Ideology—that is what gives evildoing its long-sought justification and gives the evildoer the necessary steadfastness and determination. That is the social theory which helps to make his acts seem good instead of bad in his own and others’ eyes, so that he won’t hear reproaches and curses but will receive praise and honors.

The Poles rode out from Warsaw against the German Tanks on horses. Rode knowing, in sunlight, with sabers, A magnitude of beauty that allows me no peace. And yet this poem would lessen that day. Question The bravery. Say it's not courage. Call it a passion. Would say courage isn't that. Not at its best. It was impossib1e, and with form. They rode in sunlight, Were mangled. But I say courage is not the abnormal. Not the marvelous act. Not Macbeth with fine speeches. The worthless can manage in public, or for the moment. It is too near the whore's heart: the bounty of impulse, And the failure to sustain even small kindness. Not the marvelous act, but the evident conclusion of being. Not strangeness, but a leap forward of the same quality. Accomplishment. The even loyalty. But fresh. Not the Prodigal Son, nor Faustus. But Penelope. The thing steady and clear. Then the crescendo. The real form. The culmination. And the exceeding. Not the surprise. The amazed understanding. The marriage, Not the month's rapture. Not the exception. The beauty That is of many days. Steady and clear. It is the normal excellence, of long accomplishment.

Lady Macbeth...Come out, damned spot! Out, I command you! One, two. OK, it’s time to do it now.—Hell is murky!—Nonsense, my lord, nonsense! You are a soldier, and yet you are afraid? Why should we be scared, when no one can lay the guilt upon us?—But who would have thought the old man would have had so much blood in him? Act 5, Scene 1

What’s done cannot be undone. —Macbeth (1606), act 5, scene 1

We meet the three sisters again in Shakespeare’s infamous Scottish play, the much lauded Macbeth. In the first act, when Macbeth is still King Duncan’s victorious war leader, he meets the three witches on the heath and they great him: First witch: “All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Glamis!” Second witch: “All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, thane of Cawdor!” Third witch: “All hail, Macbeth that shalt be king hereafter!” They have named his previous noble title, his new title, the Thane of Cawdor, gained when its rebellious former holder was executed; and the title that he does not yet have. If we understand these three hags as the ‘Wyrd,’ then they have just revealed Macbeth’s past, present, and future in chronological order.