299+ Best Macbeth Quotes [2026]

Best Macbeth Quotes

Fair is foul and foul is fair
🌫️ Hover through the fog
🌪️ And filthy air
👁️ Nothing is as it seems

👑 All hail Macbeth
⚔️ Thane of Glamis
🛡️ Thane of Cawdor
🌟 King hereafter

🔥 Is this a dagger
🤲 Which I see before me
🩸 The handle toward my hand
👣 Come let me clutch thee

🌙 Methought I heard a voice cry
😴 Sleep no more
👑 Macbeth does murder sleep
⚰️ Innocence now shattered

🩸 Out damned spot
💧 Out I say
🕯️ What will these hands ne’er clean
👁️ Guilt will not fade

🌪️ Life’s but a walking shadow
🎭 A poor player
📜 That struts and frets his hour
⚰️ Then is heard no more

🔥 Stars hide your fires
🙈 Let not light see my black desires
⚔️ Deep and dark ambitions
👑 Burn within my soul

📯 Vaulting ambition
🛡️ Which overleaps itself
⚰️ And falls on the other
🌀 Desire turns to downfall

❤️ Look like the innocent flower
🐍 But be the serpent under’t
🧠 Deception is power
⚔️ Truth hides beneath

🌩️ When shall we three meet again
⚡ In thunder lightning
🌧️ Or in rain
🧹 Fate stirs once more

macbeth quotes about guilt

🩸 Will all great Neptune’s ocean
🌊 Wash this blood from my hand
😔 No water can cleanse my soul
⚓ Guilt drags me down

😴 Sleep no more I hear
🗣️ Macbeth does murder sleep
🌙 Rest flees from my mind
💭 Conscience will not fade

🧠 O full of scorpions is my mind
🕷️ Thoughts sting without mercy
😖 Peace has left my heart
🌪️ Regret storms within

🩹 What’s done cannot be undone
🕯️ Shadows follow each step
😓 Remorse clings like chains
🏚️ My spirit trembles

🖐️ Here’s the smell of blood still
🌹 Perfumes of Arabia fail
💧 No fragrance hides guilt
🙍 My hands betray me

🫣 I am afraid to think
💭 Of what I have done
👁️ Memories haunt my nights
🌫️ Truth will not die

🗡️ I am in blood stepped deep
🌊 No turning back now
🌉 Each step feels heavier
⚰️ Regret walks beside me

👻 Thou canst not say I did it
💀 Yet guilt shouts louder
😳 Ghosts rise in silence
🔥 My soul burns within

🕸️ Better be with the dead
⚰️ They rest in peace
😔 I live in torment
🌪️ Haunted by choices

⚖️ Blood will have blood
🔁 Justice finds its way
🛑 Deeds return to strike
😨 Fear grips my fate

🕯️ Had he not resembled my father
😢 As he slept beside me
🗡️ I would have struck without pause
💔 Yet guilt held my hand

🛌 Still it cried Sleep no more
🗣️ A voice inside my heart
⚡ Each whisper like thunder
🌫️ Peace lost forever

💭 To know my deed
😖 ’Twere best not know myself
🪞 My reflection feels foreign
🌑 Darkness fills my name

🤲 My hands are of your colour
😨 Yet my heart trembles more
💧 Red stains may fade
🕳️ But shame remains

🌩️ Things bad begun
🌀 Grow worse by deed
🧱 Guilt builds its walls
🚪 No escape remains

👁️ Look not so pale
🩸 Banquo’s buried deep
🌬️ Yet I feel his stare
👻 Conscience never sleeps

🦂 Each crime I commit
🔥 Ignites my quiet soul
💣 Peace explodes within
🌪️ Remorse sweeps all

🛑 I had most need of blessing
🙏 Yet Amen stuck in my throat
⚡ Holiness fled from me
😔 Guilt sealed my fate

🕳️ Hell is murky
🌫️ But my thoughts darker
🔥 Flames rise inside
😖 My soul shakes

📜 We are yet but young in deed
🗡️ More crimes yet come
🕸️ Guilt holds tighter
🕯️ Light fades slow

top 20 macbeth quotes

🗡️ Fair is foul and foul is fair
🌫️ Hover through the fog
🌪️ And filthy air
👁️ Truth wears disguise

👑 All hail Macbeth
⚔️ Thane of Glamis
🛡️ Thane of Cawdor
🌟 King hereafter

🔥 Is this a dagger
🤲 Which I see before me
🩸 The handle toward my hand
👣 Come let me clutch thee

🩸 Out damned spot
💧 Out I say
🕯️ What will these hands ne’er clean
👁️ Guilt stains forever

🌪️ Life’s but a walking shadow
🎭 A poor player
📜 That struts and frets his hour
⚰️ Then is heard no more

🌙 Look like the innocent flower
🐍 But be the serpent under’t
🧠 Hide your dark intent
⚔️ Strike when unseen

❤️ When shall we three meet again
⚡ In thunder lightning
🌧️ Or in rain
🧹 Fate stirs the sky

🧱 Vaulting ambition rises
🔁 Overleaps itself
⚰️ And falls on the other
🌀 Desire destroys

🛌 Sleep no more I hear
🗣️ Macbeth does murder sleep
🌙 Rest flees forever
💭 Conscience screams loud

🔥 Stars hide your fires
🙈 Let not light see desire
🌑 Darkness is my cloak
👑 Power my aim

🩸 I am in blood stepped deep
🌊 No turning back now
⚓ Forward or drown
🌪️ Guilt floods my path

🗣️ Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
⏳ Creeps in this petty pace
🕯️ To the last syllable of time
⚰️ Life fades without meaning

🧠 O full of scorpions is my mind
🕷️ Thoughts sting without mercy
😖 Peace cannot stay
🌪️ Madness grows stronger

🛑 If chance will have me king
👑 Why let chance crown me
🕯️ Without my stir
🤔 Fate or effort decides

⚡ So foul and fair a day
🌧️ I have not seen
🌤️ Joy and ruin mix
🌀 Destiny whispers loud

🧱 Things without remedy
🗡️ Should be without regard
🔥 What’s done is done
🚪 The past locks shut

🕸️ Double double toil and trouble
🔥 Fire burn and cauldron bubble
🧪 Magic twists fate
🌑 Darkness brews deep

🕯️ Light thickens across the sky
🌓 And the crow makes wing
🌲 Toward the rooky wood
👁️ Nature senses doom

⚔️ Bring me no more reports
🦁 Till Birnam Wood to Dunsinane
🚶 Shall come against me
🌳 Trees shall march

🔥 I bear a charmed life
🛡️ No man of woman born
⚔️ Shall harm Macbeth
👑 Pride blinds my sight

🪞 There’s no art
🧠 To find the mind’s construction
👁️ In the face
🎭 Smiles hide betrayal

macbeth quotes about ambition

🧱 I have no spur to prick the sides
🐎 Of my intent but only
🌪️ Vaulting ambition which overleaps itself
⚰️ And falls on the other

👑 If chance will have me king
🎭 Why chance may crown me
🕯️ Without my stir
🌌 Destiny invites ambition

🔥 Stars hide your fires
🙈 Let not light see
💭 My black and deep desires
🗡️ Hunger for power grows

🌹 Look like the innocent flower
🐍 But be the serpent under’t
🎭 Gentle mask hides greed
⚔️ Strike with purpose

🔮 All hail Macbeth
🛡️ Thane of Glamis
⚔️ Thane of Cawdor
👑 King hereafter

🔥 The Prince of Cumberland
🛑 That is a step
🧱 On which I must fall down
🗡️ Or else o’erleap

🕸️ To be thus is nothing
👑 But to be safely thus
😠 Fear guards my crown
🛡️ Ambition needs armor

🕯️ Come thick night
🌑 And pall thee in the dunnest smoke
🗡️ That my keen knife see not
💔 The wound it makes

🧠 Thou wouldst be great
🤲 Art not without ambition
😇 But without illness
⚔️ That should attend it

🧭 We will proceed no further
👑 In this business
🕯️ My dignity holds firm
🌪️ Yet desire shakes it

🛌 Sleep no more I hear
🌩️ Ambition stole my rest
😵 Victory tastes bitter
⚔️ Peace dies at dawn

🕯️ False face must hide
💭 What false heart knows
🎭 Smiles cloak intent
🗡️ Deception aids ambition

👑 Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown
🌱 A barren sceptre in my grip
🧬 No son to follow
⚰️ Power without legacy

🪙 My hands are of your colour
😔 But I shame to wear a heart so white
⚡ Boldness breeds rule
🩸 Cowardice kills dreams

🤴 To be king stands not alone
🗡️ But safely to be so
🛡️ Rule demands strength
⚔️ Ambition must guard itself

🔥 What’s done is done
😖 Yet hunger returns
🌀 Power is never full
👑 Desire grows deeper

🌩️ Things bad begun
🛢️ Make strong themselves by ill
🏗️ Ambition builds on sin
⚰️ Each step darker

🧠 My thought whose murder yet
🙌 Is but fantastical
⚡ Shakes so my single state
🌪️ Ambition rattles peace

🧱 I am in blood stepped so far
🌊 That should I wade no more
⚰️ Returning were as tedious
🗡️ As going o’er

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