Macbeth Character Quotes Flashcards
Lady m loved and as an equal
“My dearest partner of greatness..”
Lady m witch like
“Come, you spirits”
Lady m masculine
“Unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty “
Lady m eager to influence
“Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear”
Lady m ruthless
“O, never shall sun that morrow see!”
Lady m cunning
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”
Lady m in control
“Leave all the rest to me”
Lady m determined
“Screw your courage to the sticking, place and we’ll not fail”
Lady m admired
“Thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males”
Lady m commanding
“Go get some water, and wash this filthy witness from your hands”
Lady m godless
“Doctor: more needs she the divine than the physician”
Lady m guilt ridden
“What, will these hands ne’er be clean?”
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
Lady m honourable
“I would..have…dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn”
Lady m some conscience
“Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t”
Lady m contemptuous
“Infirm of purpose!”
Lady m fearful
“she has Light by her continually”
King Duncan respected
“Thy royal father was a most sainted king”
Duncan powerful
“No more that than of Cawdor shall deceive … go pronounce his present death”
Duncan humble
“Ross(to Macbeth): His wonders and his praises do contend which should be thine or his”
Duncan grateful
“More is thy due than more than all can pay”
Duncan expressive
(Cries with joy)
“My plenteous joys wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves in drops of sorrow”
Duncan trusting
“Fair and noble hostess, we are your guest tonight”
Duncan respectful
“O valiant cousins! Worthy gentleman”
Duncan rewarding
“With his former title greet Macbeth”
Duncan betrayed
“He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust” - ironic as followed by “enter Macbeth”
Witches portentous
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen”
Witches masculine
“You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so”
Witches unearthly
“(Macbeth) what seem’d corporal melted as breath into the wind”
Witches united
“I’ll give thee a wind. Thou’re kind. And I another”
“The weird sisters hand in hand”
Witches timely
“(Macbeth) they met me in the day of success”
Witches proud, successful and recognise evil
“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes”
Witches equivocal
“None of woman born shall harm Macbeth”
Witches credible
“All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!”
Witches scheming
“Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble”
Witches bewildering
“Not so happy, yet much happier”
Witches tempting
“All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter”
Witches supernatural
“So wither’d and so wild … That look not like the inhabitants o’ the earth”
Witches butter
“I’ll drain him dry as hay”
Macbeth valiant
“His brandish’d steel…smoked with blood execution”
M respected
“O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman”
M loving
“My dearest partner of greatness”
M curious
“Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more”
M not naturally ruthless
“..too full o’ the milk of human kindness”
M pessimistic
“ I have no spur to prick the sides of my intention, but only vaulting ambition”
M unconvinced
“I dare do all that may become a man;who dares do more is none”
M regretful
“Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!”
M committed
“I am in blood stepp’d I’m so far that, should wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er”
M fearless and misled
“Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsiane, I cannot taint with fear”
M subborn
“I will not yield to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet”
M godless
“ I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’ stuck in my throat”
“Devilish Macbeth”
M conflicted
“…his host…should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself”
M pensive
“This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill , cannot be good”
M admired
(Seargent) “brave Macbeth — we’ll be deserves that name”
Banquo disbelieving
“Have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?”
B cautious
“…instruments of darkness tell us truths”
B troubled
By the prophecy
“A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, and yet I would not sleep”
B tempted
“May they not be oracles as well and set me up in hope?”
B a threat
Macbeth “there is none but he whose being I do fear.
B vengeful
“Thou may revenge”
B protective
“Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!”
