Macbeth Act 2 Quotes Flashcards
Banquo (to Fleance): “A heavy summons
lies like lead upon me’’
Banquo (to Macbeth): “I dreamed last
night of the three weyward sisters.”
Macbeth: “I think
not of them.”
Macbeth (soliloquy): “Is this a dagger which I see before me,
the handle toward my hand? Come let me clutch thee.”
Macbeth (soliloquy): “It is the bloody business
which informs thus to mine eyes.”
Macbeth (soliloquy): “Nature seems dead and
wicked dreams abuse the curtain’d sleep.’’
Macbeth (soliloquy): “With Tarquin’s ravishing
strides towards his design moves like a ghost.’’
Macbeth (soliloquy): “Hear it not, Duncan;
for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.’’
Macbeth: “As they had seen me with these hangman’s hands…
I could not say ‘Amen’…But wherefore could not I pronounce ‘Amen’?”
Macbeth: “Methought I heard a voice cry,
‘Sleep no more: Macbeth doth murder sleep’ – the innocent sleep.”
Lady Macbeth (to Macbeth): “Go get some water and wash
this filthy witness from your hand.”
Macbeth (soliloquy): “Will all great Neptune’s ocean
wash this blood clean from my hand?”
Lady Macbeth (to Macbeth): “My hands are of your colour; but I shame to
wear a heart so white. I hear a knocking…A little water clears us of this deed.”
Macbeth: “Wake Duncan with
thy knocking! I would thou couldst!”
Porter: “Here’s a knocking indeed: if a man were porter of hell-gate,
he should have old turning the key…I pray you, remember the porter.”
Lennox: “The earth was
feverous and did shake.’’
Macbeth: “His gash’d stabs
look’d like a breach in nature’’
Donalbain: “There’s daggers in men’s smiles
the nea’er in blood, the nearer bloody.”
Donalbain: …the nea’er in blood, the nearer bloody.”
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles
Ross: “Dark night strangles
the travelling lamp.”
Ross: “…the travelling lamp.”
“Dark night strangles
Old Man: “A falcon, towering in her pride of place
was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d.”
Old Man: “…was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d.”
“A falcon, towering in her pride of place
Old Man: “’Tis said they (Duncan’s horses)
eat each other.”
Old Man: “…eat each other.”
“’Tis said they (Duncan’s horses)
Macduff: “Adieu, lest our old robes…”
sit easier than our new.”
Macduff: “…sit easier than our new.”
“Adieu, lest our old robes…”
