Macbeth Flashcards
“I have no spur…
…to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition”
“When you durst do it…
…then you were a man”
“Life is a tale…
…told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”
“Stars, hide…
…your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires”
“Come you spirits…
…unsex me here”
“Look like th’innocent…
…flower but be the serpent under’t”
“Out…
…damned spot”
“A little water…
…clears us of this deed”
“All the perfumes of Arabia…
…will not sweeten this little hand”
“Fair is foul…
…and foul is fair”
“Lesser than Macbeth…
…and greater”
“Not so happy…
…yet much happier”
“Thou shalt get kings…
…though thou be none”
“Two truths are told…
…as happy prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme”
“If good, why do I…
…yield to that suggestion”
“If chance will have me king…
…why, chance may crown me, without my stir”
“It is too full o’ the…
…milk of human kindness”
“All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee…
…thane of Cawdor!”
“O, never shall…
…sun that morrow see!”
“There’s daggers…
…in men’s smiles”
“Who would have thought…
…the old man to have had so much blood in him”
“Oftentimes, to win us to our harm…
…the instruments of darkness tell us truths”
“Thou hast it now…
…king, Cawdor, Glamis, all… and I fear thou play’d most foully for it”
“Wake Duncan…
…with thy knocking: I would thou couldst”
“I am in blood…
…steeped in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er”
“To know my deed…
…’twere best not to know myself”
“I have supped…
…full with horrors”
“Life’s but a walking shadow…
…a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage”
“Will all great Neptune’s…
…ocean wash this blood clean from my hands?”
“To be thus is nothing…
…but to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo stick deep”
“From this moment, the very…
…firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand”
“I will not yield to…
…kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet”
“The sleeping and the dead…
…are but as pictures. ‘Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil”
“My hands are of your colour…
…but I shame to wear a heart so white”
“Are you…
…a man?”
“Each new morn…
…new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike heaven on the face”
“Not in the legions of…
…horrid hell can come a devil more damned in evils to top Macbeth”
“Sinful Macduff…
…they were all struck for thee”
“Macduff was from…
…his mother’s womb untimely ripped”
