Macbeth Act 1 Flashcards
Quotes that show macbeth’s reputation from scene 2 (4)
“Brave Macbeth”
“O, valiant cousin, worthy gentleman!”
“Bellona’s bridegroom”
“What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won”
M- “so foul-
And fair a day I have not seen”
B- “what are these-
So withered, and so wild in their attire, that look not like th’inhabitants o’ the earth, and yet are on’t?”
W- “All hail, Macbeth-
That shall be king hereafter!”
B- “Good sir-
Why do you start, and seem to fear things that do sound so fair?”
W- “thou shalt get kings-
Though thou be none”
M- “why do you dress me-
In borrowed robes?”
M- “Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor-
The greatest is behind”
B- “But ‘tis strange:
And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence”
M- “This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good”
M- “If chance will have me king
Why, chance may crown me, without my stir”
KD- “There’s no art
To find the mind’s construction in the face: he was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust”
M- “The service and loyalty
I owe, in doing it, pays itself”
M- “The Prince of Cumberland!
That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’er leap, for in my way it lies”
M- “Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires: the eye wink at the hand; yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see”
LM- “Glamis thou art,
And Cawdor; and shalt be what thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature, it is too full o’th’milk of human-kindness to catch the nearest way”
LM- “Hie thee hither,
that I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round”
LM- “Unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty”
LM- ‘Take my milk
For gall, you murdering ministers”
LM- “Great Glamis!
Worthy Cawdor! Greater than both by the all-hail hereafter!”
LM- “O, never
Shall sun the morrow see!”
LM- “look like
The innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”
KD- “Give me your hand;
Conduct me to mine host. We love him highly, and shall continue our graces towards him”
M- “If it were done,
When ‘tis done, then ‘twere well it were done quickly”
M- “But in these cases
We still have judgement here”
M- “As his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself”
M- “I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’er leaps itself and falls on the other”
M- “We will proceed
No further in this business: he hath honoured me of late; and I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people which should be worn now in their newest gloss, not cast aside so soon”
M- “I dare do all
That may become a man; who dares do more, is none”
LM- “I have given suck,
And know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me- I would, while it is smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from its boneless gums, and dashed the brains out”
LM- “But screw
Your courage to the sticking-place, and we’ll not fail”
M- “False face
Must hide what the false heart doth know”
