Macbeth Flashcards

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“I have no spur…

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…to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition”

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2
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“When you durst do it…

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…then you were a man”

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3
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“Life is a tale…

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…told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”

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4
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“Stars, hide…

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…your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires”

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5
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“Come you spirits…

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…unsex me here”

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6
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“Look like th’innocent…

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…flower but be the serpent under’t”

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7
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“Out…

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…damned spot”

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8
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“A little water…

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…clears us of this deed”

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9
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“All the perfumes of Arabia…

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…will not sweeten this little hand”

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10
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“Fair is foul…

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…and foul is fair”

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11
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“Lesser than Macbeth…

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…and greater”

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12
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“Not so happy…

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…yet much happier”

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13
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“Thou shalt get kings…

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…though thou be none”

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14
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“Two truths are told…

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…as happy prologues to the swelling act of the imperial theme”

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15
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“If good, why do I…

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…yield to that suggestion”

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16
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“If chance will have me king…

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…why, chance may crown me, without my stir”

17
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“It is too full o’ the…

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…milk of human kindness”

18
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“All hail Macbeth! Hail to thee…

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…thane of Cawdor!”

19
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“O, never shall…

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…sun that morrow see!”

20
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“There’s daggers…

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…in men’s smiles”

21
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“Who would have thought…

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…the old man to have had so much blood in him”

22
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“Oftentimes, to win us to our harm…

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…the instruments of darkness tell us truths”

23
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“Thou hast it now…

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…king, Cawdor, Glamis, all… and I fear thou play’d most foully for it”

24
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“Wake Duncan…

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…with thy knocking: I would thou couldst”

25
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“I am in blood…

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…steeped in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er”

26
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“To know my deed…

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…’twere best not to know myself”

27
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“I have supped…

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…full with horrors”

28
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“Life’s but a walking shadow…

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…a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage”

29
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“Will all great Neptune’s…

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…ocean wash this blood clean from my hands?”

30
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“To be thus is nothing…

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…but to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo stick deep”

31
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“From this moment, the very…

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…firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand”

32
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“I will not yield to…

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…kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet”

33
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“The sleeping and the dead…

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…are but as pictures. ‘Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil”

34
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“My hands are of your colour…

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…but I shame to wear a heart so white”

35
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“Are you…

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…a man?”

36
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“Each new morn…

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…new widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows strike heaven on the face”

37
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“Not in the legions of…

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…horrid hell can come a devil more damned in evils to top Macbeth”

38
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“Sinful Macduff…

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…they were all struck for thee”

39
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“Macduff was from…

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…his mother’s womb untimely ripped”