Macbeth Act 1 Quotes Flashcards
Third Witch: “There to meet
with Macbeth.”
Witches: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair;
Hover through the fog and filthy air.”
Captain: “For brave Macbeth, - well he dserves that name -
“unseamed him from the nave to th’chops.”
Duncan: “O valiant cousin!
Worthy gentleman!”
Captain: “Macbeth and Banquo… As canons overcharg’d with double cracks,
so they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.”
Third Witch: “A drum, a drum:
macbeth doth come.”
Macbeth: “So foul and fair
a day I have not seen.”
Banquo: “Good sir, why do you start, and seem
to fear things that do sound so fair?”
Witches: “Thou shall get kings, though thou be none. /
- So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!”
Macbeth: “Stay, you
imperfect speakers, tell me more.”
Banquo: “What, can the
Devil speak true?”
Macbeth: “Why do you dress
me in borrowed robes?”
Banquo: “The instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with
honest trifles to betray’s in deepest consequence.”
Macbeth: “Two truths are told, as happy prologues to the swelling act…
This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill; cannot be good.”
Macbeth: “Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my
seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature.”
Banquo: “Look how our partner’s rapt.. new honours come uon him like our
strange garmets, cleave not to their mould, but with the aid of use.”
Duncan: “There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face;
he was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.”
Macbeth: “Stars, hide your fires,
let not light see my black and deep desires”
Lady Macbeth: “I do fear thy nature/ It is too full
o’th’milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.”
Lady Macbeth: “Thou wouldst be great /
Art not without ambition.”
Lady Macbeth: “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 gold round.”
Lady Macbeth (soliloquy): “The raven himself is hoarse / That croaks
the fatal entrance of Duncan /Under my battlements.”
Lady Macbeth (soliloquy): “Take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers,
wherever in your sightless substances you wait on nature’s mischief.”
Lady Macbeth: “My keen knife see not the wound it makes
nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark”
Lady Macbeth (soliloquy): “Come, thick night,/
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,”
Lady Macbeth (to Macbeth): “Your face, my thane, is as a book
where men /May read strange matters”
Lady Macbeth (to Macbeth): “Bear welcome in your eye, your hand,
your tongue; look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.”
Lady Macbeth: “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’’
Duncan: “This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air nimbly and
sweetly recommends itself unto our gentle senses…(to Lady Macbeth) give me your hand.”
Macbeth (soliloquy): “(Duncan) hath been so clear in his great office,
that his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued against the deep damnation of his taking-off.”
Macbeth (soliloquy): “Bloody instructions,
which being taught, return to plague th’inventor.”
Macbeth (soliloquy): “I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent,
but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other -”
Macbeth (to Lady Macbeth): “We will proceed
no further in this business.”
Lady Macbeth (to Macbeth): “Was the hope drunk wherein you dressed
yourself?…When you durst do it, then you were a man.”
Macbeth (to Lady Macbeth): “Bring forth men-children only, /
For thy undaunted mettle should compose / Nothing but males.”
Macbeth (to Lady Macbeth): “false face must hide
what the false heart doth know.”
