All Quotes Flashcards
A1S1: Witch: ‘MB linked to evil immediately’
‘There to meet with Macbeth’
A1S1: Witches: ‘witches see right as wrong and wrong as right’
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair; Hover through the fog and filthy air’
A1S2:: Sergent: ‘capable warrior or blood thirsty?’
‘Unseamed him for the nave to the chops, and fixed his head upon our battlements’
A1S3: Banquo: ‘confused what witches are’
‘What are these’
A1S3: Banquo: ‘notices Macbeth seems scared’
‘seem to fear things that do sound fair?’
A1S3: Witch: ‘Banquo’s sons etc. will be kings but not him’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none’
A1S3: Macbeth: ‘let faith take course- be king without doing anything (killing Banquo)’
‘If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir’
A1S4: Duncan: ‘Duncan has poor judgment on old thane of Cawdor: foreshadowing’
‘He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust’
A1S5: Macbeth/Lady Macbeth: ‘referring to each other lovingly’
‘My dearest love’
A1S5: Lady Macbeth: ‘Macbeth is too nice to be king, he is not man enough’
‘I fear thy nature; it is too full of the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way’
A1S5: Lady Macbeth: ‘Will talk sense into Macbeth to become king’
‘I may pour my spirits in thine ear’
A1S5: Lady Macbeth: ‘Calls on evil to take away her feminine qualities and make her tougher’
‘Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty!’
A1S5: Lady Macbeth: ‘Appearance v reality’
‘Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’
A1S5: Lady Macbeth: ‘Taking charge’
‘Leave all the rest to me.’
A1S6: Duncan: ‘Dramatic irony- welcoming- greeting’
‘Fair and noble hostess’
A1S7: Macbeth: ‘Duncan is a good king’
‘been so clear in great office’
A1S7: Macbeth: ‘Decision made- not killing Duncan’
‘We will proceed no further in this business.’
A1S7: Macbeth: ‘decided will do anything to kill Duncan’
‘I am settled and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat.’
A2S1: Banquo: ‘Afraid- can’t stop thinking about witches, inviting Macbeth into conversation’
“I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: to you they have showed some truth’
A2S1: Macbeth: ‘Pretending to not care about the witches (lie) changing subjects from Banquos fear of witches’
“I think not of them”
A2S1: Macbeth: ‘Hallucinating before murdering Duncan’
“Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?”
A2S1: Macbeth: ‘He must not be well if he is imagining this’
“A dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat oppressed brain”
A2S2: Lady Macbeth: ‘Excuse for not killing Duncan- vulnerable’
“Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t”
A2S2: Macbeth: ‘Regrets killing Duncan’
“This is a sorry sight”
A2S2: Lady Macbeth: ‘Wants Macbeth to man up- not impressed with his regret, contrast’
“A foolish thought”
A2S2: Lady Macbeth: ‘takes charge’
“Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers”
A2S2: Macbeth: ‘Metaphor- will never be clean of his actions’
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”
A2S3: Lennox: ‘Wild night’
“The night has been unruly”
A2S3: Macbeth: ‘Killed guards out of anger’
“I do repent me of my fury, that I did kill them”
A2S3: Malcolm: ‘He knows more about murder’
“To show an unfelt sorrow is an office which the false man does easy”
A2S3: Donalbain: ‘Can’t trust anyone there’
“Where we are there’s daggers in men’s smiles”
A2S4: Ross: ‘Heaven is upset by the actions of people’
“The heavens, as troubled with man’s act, threaten his bloody stage”
A2S4: Ross and Macduff: ‘Why won’t Macduff go to Duncans funeral or Macbeths Coronation?’
“Will you to Scone?”
“No, cousin, I’ll to Fife”
A3S1: Banquo: ‘suspicious of how Macbeth became king’
‘Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised, and, “I fear, thou play’dst most foully for’t”
A3S1: Banquo: ‘if they’ve shown Macbeth truth maybe show him truth aswell’
“by the verities on thee made good, may they not be my oracles as well, and set me up in hope?”
A3S1: Macbeth: ‘being king is nothing without the crown secured’
“To be thus is nothing; but to be safely thus”
A3S1: Macbeth: ‘only fears Banquo’
“There is none but he whose being I do fear”
A3:S1: Macbeth: ‘no heirs to thrown’
“upon my head they placed a fruitless crown”
A3S1: Macbeth: ‘killed Duncan (good man); trying to rationalise killing Banquo’
“For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind; for them the gracious Duncan have I murdered”
A3S1: Macbeth: ‘manipulation guards to kill Banquo’
“Both of you know Banquo was your enemy”
A3S1: Macbeth: ‘Banquo will die tonight’
“It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul’s flight, if it find heaven, must find it tonight”
A3S2: Lady Macbeth: ‘We got us what we want but we’re not happy’
“Nought’s had, all’s spent, where our desire is got without content: ‘tis safer to be that which we destroy than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy”
A3S2: Macbeth: ‘There’s still a chance they will love the crown’
“We have scotched the snake, not killed it”
A3S2: Macbeth: ‘Rather be dead because they are at peace’
“Terrible dreams does shake us nightly. Better be with the dead”
A3S2: Lady Macbeth: ‘Fix yourself up’
“Sleek o’er your rugged looks; be bright and jovial among your guests tonight”
A3S2: Macbeth: ‘His mind is a mess’
“O, full of scorpions in my mind”
A3S2: Macbeth: ‘Doesn’t want her to know the plan’
“The innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck”
A3S3: Banquo: ‘You will get revenge’
“Thou mayst revenge”
A3S4: Macbeth: ‘Not happy, fleance has become a bigger threat’
“Then comes my fit again”
A3S4: Macbeth: ‘Banquo’s dead and fleance has fled and he will develop venom, he isn’t powerful enough yet’
“There the grown serpent lies; the worm that’s fled hath nature that in time will venom breed, no teeth for the present”
A3S4: Macbeth: ‘Defiant with ghost of Banquo’
“Never shake thy gory locks at me”
A3S4: Lady Macbeth: ‘Rescues Macbeth’
“Sit worthy friends: my Lord is often thus, and hath been from his youth”
A3S4: Lady Macbeth: ‘Implies Macbeth is speaking rubbish; his imagination from fear’
“O proper stuff! This is the very painting of your fear: this is the air drawn dagger which, you said, led you to Duncan”
A3S4: Macbeth: ‘Is scared of ghost’ (when ghost leaves)
“I am a man again” 
A3S4: Hecate: ‘Macbeth is selfish and only wants to help himself’
“Love for his own ends”
A3S6: Lennox: ‘Under an evil ruler’
“Our suffering country under a hand accursed!
A4S1: Witch: ‘signal of approaching evil’
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes”
A4S1: First Apparition: ‘watch out for Macduff’
“Beware Macduff; beware the thane of fife”
A4S1: Second Apparition: ‘No one will or can harm Macbeth; be confident’
“Non of woman born shall harm Macbeth”
A4S1: Macbeth: ‘he won’t fear him but will kill him just in case’
“Then live, Macduff: what need I fear of thee? But yet I’ll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of faith”
A4S1: Third Apparition: ‘No one will kill Macbeth until Birnam wood moves up Dunsinane hill’
“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him”
A4S1: Macbeth: ‘Will Banquos children ever reign?’
“Shall Banquo’s issue ever reign in this kingdom?”
A4S1: Macbeth: ‘Aggressive’
“I will be satisfied: deny me this, and an eternal curse fall on you!”
A4S1: Macbeth: ‘Seeing Banquos children as Kings’
“Horrible sight”
A4S1: Macbeth: ‘Do it before he calms down; knows it’s wrong’
“This deed I’ll do before this purpose cool”
A4S2: Ross: ‘speaking of Macduff; nothing is predictable in these times’
“He is noble, wise, judicious and best knows the fits o’ the season”
A4S2: Ross: ‘Metaphor for the times they’re in’
“A wild and violent sea”
A4S3: Malcolm: ‘speaking of hatred towards Macbeth’
“This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, was once thought honest”
A4S3: Macduff: ‘His patriotism to Scotland’
“Bleed, bleed, poor country”
A4S3: Macduff: ‘No one is worse than Macbeth’
“Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damned in evils to top Macbeth” 
A4S3: Malcolm: ‘Virtues of a king; testing Macduff’
“But I have none: the king-becoming graces”
A4S3: Macduff: ‘Patriotism’
“O Scotland, Scotland!”
A4S3: Macduff: ‘Malcolm is terrible if this is true!’
“Fit to govern! No not to live”
A4S3: Malcolm: ‘Trusts Macduff because of his patriotism’
“Macduff, this noble passion,[…] hath […] reconciled my thoughts to thy good truth an honour”
A4S3: Ross: ‘Macbeth’s actions on Macduff’s family’
“Your wife and babes savagely slaughtered” “Wife, children, servants, all that could be found”
A4S3: Malcolm: ‘Kill Macbeth as revenge: a cure’
“Let’s make us medicines of our great revenge, to cure this deadly grief”
A4S3: Macduff: ‘Blaming himself’
“Sinful Macduff, they were all struck of thee”
A4S3: Macduff: ‘Determined to kill Macbeth’
“Bring thou this fiend of Scotland and myself; with in my sword’s length set him”
