Act 1 quotes Flashcards
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”
witches
“with his brandished steel,
Which smoked with bloody execution […] he unseamed him from the name to th’chaps”
Captain to Duncan
“All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter”
witches’ prophecy
“I do fear thy nature,
It is too full o’th’milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.”
Lady Macbeth to Macbeth
“Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here”
Lady Macbeth
“full me from the crown to the toe topfull
Of direst cruelty”
Lady Macbeth
“Make thick my blood,
Stop up th’access and passage to remorse”
Lady Macbeth
“Come to my women’s breasts
And take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers”
Lady Macbeth
“Look like th’innocent flower,
But be the serpent under’t”
Lady Macbeth to Macbeth
“This even-handed justice
Commands th’ingredience of our poisoned chalice
To our own lips”
Macbeth’s moral conflict about killing Duncan
“He’s here in double trust”
Macbeth on how he is being duplicitous in letting Duncan trust him
“his virtues
Will plead like angels”
Macbeth on Duncan
“What beast was’t then
That made you break this enterprise to me?”
Lady Macbeth to Macbeth
“I have given suck and know
How tender ‘it’s to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it were smiling in my face,
Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums
And dashed the brains out, has I so sworn
As you have done to this”
Lady Macbeth to Macbeth
