Macbeth Act 3 Quotes

Banquo: Thou hast is now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promis’d, and I fear

• thou played'st most foully for't

• thou art too full o' the milk of human kindness

• you'll kill me next

• Duncan was murdered

Macbeth: To be thus is nothing,

• but to be safely thus

• but to be that is more

• but to sleep would be a relief

• but to be dead would be better

Macbeth: Our fears in Banquo stick deep, and in his royalty of nature reigns that which

• would be feared

• I hate

• makes me mad

• made him my friend

Macbeth (about the witches): Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown and put a

• barren sceptre in my gripe

• silly wig

• conniving woman by my side

• dagger in my hand

Lady Macbeth: Nought’s had, all’s spent where our desire is got

• without content

• it is meant

• not lent

• and is sent

Lady Macbeth: 'Tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction

• dwell in doubtful joy

• kill a little boy

• lose our old friend Joy

• break our favourite toy

Lady Macbeth to Macbeth: What's done

• is done

• is undone

• has just begun

• under the sun

Macbeth to Lady Macbeth: We have scorched the snake,

• not kill'd it

• and it's angry

• let's eat it

• but only on the outside

Macbeth to Lady Macbeth: and sleep in the affliction of these terrible dreams

• that shake us nightly

• about babies

• of yours

• we keep having

Macbeth to Lady 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

• to die

• be tortured

• start to feel guilty