key Macbeth quotes 📘

Question 1

‘He … him from the … to the ….’ (Captain, Act 1 Scene 2)

Answer 1

‘He unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps.’

Question 2

‘… is … and … is …, / … through the … and … air.’ (Witches, Act 1 Scene 1)

Answer 2

‘Fair is foul and foul is fair / hover through the fog and filthy air.’

Question 3

‘And …, to … us to our …, / the … of … tell us … . ‘ (Banquo, Act 1 Scene 3)

Answer 3

‘And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, / the instruments of darkness tell us truths.’

Question 4

‘…, hide your …: let not … see my … and … … .’ (Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 4)

Answer 4

‘Stars, hide your fires: let not light see my black and deep desires.’

Question 5

‘My dearest .. of … .’ (Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5)

Answer 5

‘My dearest partner of greatness.’

Question 6

‘Too … o’ th’ … of human … .’ (Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5)

Answer 6

‘Too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness.’

Question 7

‘I may … my … in thine … .’ (Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5)

Answer 7

‘I may pour my spirits in thine ear.’

Question 8

‘Come, you … that … on …… , … me here / And … me from the … to the … top-full / Of … … .’ (Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5)

Answer 8

‘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.’

Question 9

‘Take my … for …, you … … .’ (Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5)

Answer 9

‘Take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers.’

Question 10

‘Look like the … …, / But be the … under’t. He that’s … / must be … for: and you shall … / This … great … into … ….’ (Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 5)

Answer 10

‘Look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under’t. He that’s coming / Must be provided for: and you shall put / This night’s great business into my dispatch.’

Question 11

‘If th’… / Could … up the … and …, / With his …, … ; that but this … / Might be the …-… and …-… here, / But …, upon this … and … of …, / We’d … the … to come.’ (Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 7)

Answer 11

‘If th’assassination / Could trammel up the consequence and catch, / With his surcease, success ; that but this blow / Might be the be-all and end-all here, / But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, / We’d jump the life to come.’

Question 12

‘I have no … to … the sides of my …, but only / … …, which o’erleaps … and falls on th’….’ (Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 7)

Answer 12

‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other.’

Question 13

‘I have given …, and know / How … ‘tis to … the … that … me: / I would, while it was … in my …, / Have … my … from his … …, / And …. the … out, had I so …’ (Lady Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 7)

Answer 13

‘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 pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums / And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn.’

Question 14

‘Bring forth …-… only; / For thy … … should … nothing but ….’ (Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 7)

Answer 14

‘Bring forth men-children only; / For thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males.’

Question 15

‘… … must hide what the … … doth ….’ (Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 7)

Answer 15

‘False face must hide what the false heart doth know.’

Question 16

‘Is this a … which I … … me, / The … towards my …?’ (Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 1)

Answer 16

‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle towards my hand?’

Question 17

‘I … their … ready; / He could not … ‘em. Had he not … / My … as he …, I had ….’ (Lady Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2)

Answer 17

‘I laid their daggers ready; / He could not miss ‘em. Had he not resembled / My father as he slept, I had done’t.’

Question 18

‘A little … … us of this ….’ (Lady Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2)

Answer 18

Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2)
‘A little water clears us of this deed.’

Question 19

‘… had, all’s …, / Where our … is got … … ; / Tis … to be that which we … / Than by … dwell in … ….’ (Lady Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 2)

Answer 19

‘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.’

Question 20

‘O, … of … is my …, dear …!’ (Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 2)

Answer 20

‘O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!’

Question 21

‘Be … of the …, dearest … , / Till thou … the … . Come, … night, / … up the … eye of … day.’ (Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 2)

Answer 21

‘Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, / Till thou applaud the deed. Come, seeling night, / Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day.’

Question 22

‘It will have … ; … say, … will have … .’ (Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 4)

Answer 22

‘It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood.’

Question 23

‘…, …, toil and …; / Fire …, and … bubble.’ (Witches, Act 4 Scene 1)

Answer 23

‘Double, double, toil and trouble; / Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.’

Question 24

‘By the … of my …, / Something … this way … .’ (Witches, Act 4 Scene 1)

Answer 24

‘By the pricking of my thumbs, / Something wicked this way comes.’

Question 25

‘None of … … / Shall … Macbeth.’ (Witches, Act 4 Scene 1)

Answer 25

‘None of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth.’

Question 26

‘… my … ones? / Did you say …? O …-…! …! / What, all my … … and their … / At one … …?’ (Macduff, Act 4 Scene 3)

Answer 26

‘All my pretty ones? / Did you say all? O hell-kite! / What, all my pretty chickens and their dam / At one fell swoop?’

Question 27

‘But I … also … it as a … .’ (Macduff, Act 4 Scene 3)

Answer 27

‘But I must also feel it as a man.’