Macbeth Act 1 Quotes

Question 1

Third Witch: “There to meet

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with Macbeth.”

Question 2

Witches: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair;

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Hover through the fog and filthy air.”

Question 3

Captain: “For brave Macbeth, - well he dserves that name -

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“unseamed him from the nave to th’chops.”

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Duncan: “O valiant cousin!

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Worthy gentleman!”

Question 5

Captain: “Macbeth and Banquo… As canons overcharg’d with double cracks,

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so they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.”

Question 6

Third Witch: “A drum, a drum:

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macbeth doth come.”

Question 7

Macbeth: “So foul and fair

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a day I have not seen.”

Question 8

Banquo: “Good sir, why do you start, and seem

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to fear things that do sound so fair?”

Question 9

Witches: “Thou shall get kings, though thou be none. /

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• So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!”

Question 10

Macbeth: “Stay, you

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imperfect speakers, tell me more.”

Question 11

Banquo: “What, can the

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Devil speak true?”

Question 12

Macbeth: “Why do you dress

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me in borrowed robes?”

Question 13

Banquo: “The instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with

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honest trifles to betray’s in deepest consequence.”

Question 14

Macbeth: “Two truths are told, as happy prologues to the swelling act…

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This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill; cannot be good.”

Question 15

Macbeth: “Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my

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seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature.”

Question 16

Banquo: “Look how our partner’s rapt.. new honours come uon him like our

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strange garmets, cleave not to their mould, but with the aid of use.”

Question 17

Duncan: “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face;

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he was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.”

Question 18

Macbeth: “Stars, hide your fires,

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let not light see my black and deep desires”

Question 19

Lady Macbeth: “I do fear thy nature/ It is too full

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o’th’milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.”

Question 20

Lady Macbeth: “Thou wouldst be great /

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Art not without ambition.”

Question 21

Lady Macbeth: “hie thee hither / That I may pour my

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spirits in thine ear / And chastise with the valour of my tongue / All that impedes thee from the gold round.”

Question 22

Lady Macbeth (soliloquy): “The raven himself is hoarse / That croaks

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the fatal entrance of Duncan /Under my battlements.”

Question 23

Lady Macbeth (soliloquy): “Take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers,

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wherever in your sightless substances you wait on nature’s mischief.”

Question 24

Lady Macbeth: “My keen knife see not the wound it makes

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nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark”

Question 25

Lady Macbeth (soliloquy): “Come, thick night,/

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And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,”

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Lady Macbeth (to Macbeth): “Your face, my thane, is as a book

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where men /May read strange matters”

Question 27

Lady Macbeth (to Macbeth): “Bear welcome in your eye, your hand,

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your tongue; look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.”

Question 28

Lady Macbeth: “Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here

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and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty’’

Question 29

Duncan: “This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air nimbly and

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sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses…(to Lady Macbeth) give me your hand.”

Question 30

Macbeth (soliloquy): “(Duncan) hath been so clear in his great office,

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that his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued against the deep damnation of his taking-off.”

Question 31

Macbeth (soliloquy): “Bloody instructions,

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which being taught, return to plague th’inventor.”

Question 32

Macbeth (soliloquy): “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent,

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but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other -”

Question 33

Macbeth (to Lady Macbeth): “We will proceed

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no further in this business.”

Question 34

Lady Macbeth (to Macbeth): “Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed

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yourself?…When you durst do it, then you were a man.”

Question 35

Macbeth (to Lady Macbeth): “Bring forth men-children only, /

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For thy undaunted mettle should compose / Nothing but males.”

Question 36

Macbeth (to Lady Macbeth): “false face must hide

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what the false heart doth know.”