Act 1 - Quotes Flashcards
‘Fair is foul and foul is fair’
The witches (1)
‘brave Macbeth […] with his brandished steel […] he unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops, And fixed his head upon our battlements’
Captain (2)
‘noble Macbeth’
Duncan (2)
‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen’
Macbeth (3)
‘oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths’
Banquo (3)
‘This supernatural soliciting Cannot be ill, cannot be good […] Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair And make my seated heart knock at my ribs’
Macbeth (3)
‘If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me Without my stir’
Macbeth (3)
‘Stars, hide your fires; Let not light See my black and deep desires’
Macbeth (4)
‘I burned in desire to question them further’
Macbeth (5)
‘Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness’
Lady Macbeth (5 soliloquy)
‘Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it’
Lady Macbeth (5 soliloquy)
‘I may pour my spirits in thine ear’
Lady Macbeth (5 soliloquy)
‘unsex me here’
‘Come to my woman’s breast, And take my milk for gall’
Lady Macbeth (5 soliloquy)
‘My dearest love’
‘dearest partner of greatness’
Macbeth (5)
‘Look like th’ innocent flower, But be the serpent under ‘t ‘
Lady Macbeth (5)
‘our honoured hostess’
Duncan (6)
‘as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself’
Macbeth (7 soliloquy)
‘I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition’
Macbeth (7 soliloquy)
‘We will proceed no further in this business’
Macbeth (7)
‘And live a cowards in thine own esteem’
‘screw your courage to the sticking-place’
Lady Macbeth (7)
‘Bring forth men-children only’
Macbeth (7)
