Macbeth Movie Script

Wouldst thou have that which thou esteem'st the ornament of life and live a coward in thy own esteem, letting "I dare not" wait upon "I would"?

Prithee, peace.

I dare do all that may become a man.

Who dares do more is none.

What beast was't, then, that made you break this enterprise to me?

When you durst do it, then you were a man.

And to be more than what you were, you would be so much more the man.

I have given suck and know how tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me.

I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out had I so sworn, as you have done, to this.

If we should fail?

We fail.

But screw your courage to the sticking place and we'll not fail.

When Duncan is asleep his two chamberlains will I with wine and wassail so convince that memory, the warder of the brain, shall be a-fume and the receipt of reason a limbeck only.

When in swinish sleep their drenched natures lie as in a death what cannot you and I perform upon the unguarded Duncan?

What not put upon his spongy officers who shall bear the guilt of our great quell?

I am settled and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat.

Take my sword.

Take thee that too.

A heavy summons lies like lead upon me and yet I would not sleep.

Merciful powers, restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature gives way to in repose.

Is this a dagger which I see before me?

The handle toward my hand.

Come, let me clutch thee.

Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible to feeling as to sight?

Or art thou but a dagger of the mind?