Macbeth Character Quotes

Question 1

Lady m loved and as an equal

Answer 1

“My dearest partner of greatness..”

Question 2

Lady m witch like

Answer 2

“Come, you spirits”

Question 3

Lady m masculine

Answer 3

“Unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty “

Question 4

Lady m eager to influence

Answer 4

“Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear”

Question 5

Lady m ruthless

Answer 5

“O, never shall sun that morrow see!”

Question 6

Lady m cunning

Answer 6

“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”

Question 7

Lady m in control

Answer 7

“Leave all the rest to me”

Question 8

Lady m determined

Answer 8

“Screw your courage to the sticking, place and we’ll not fail”

Question 9

Lady m admired

Answer 9

“Thy undaunted mettle should compose nothing but males”

Question 10

Lady m commanding

Answer 10

“Go get some water, and wash this filthy witness from your hands”

Question 11

Lady m godless

Answer 11

“Doctor: more needs she the divine than the physician”

Question 12

Lady m guilt ridden

Answer 12

“What, will these hands ne’er be clean?”

“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”

Question 13

Lady m honourable

Answer 13

“I would..have…dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn”

Question 14

Lady m some conscience

Answer 14

“Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t”

Question 15

Lady m contemptuous

Answer 15

“Infirm of purpose!”

Question 16

Lady m fearful

Answer 16

“she has Light by her continually”

Question 17

King Duncan respected

Answer 17

“Thy royal father was a most sainted king”

Question 18

Duncan powerful

Answer 18

“No more that than of Cawdor shall deceive … go pronounce his present death”

Question 19

Duncan humble

Answer 19

“Ross(to Macbeth): His wonders and his praises do contend which should be thine or his”

Question 20

Duncan grateful

Answer 20

“More is thy due than more than all can pay”

Question 21

Duncan expressive

Answer 21

(Cries with joy)

“My plenteous joys wanton in fullness, seek to hide themselves in drops of sorrow”

Question 22

Duncan trusting

Answer 22

“Fair and noble hostess, we are your guest tonight”

Question 23

Duncan respectful

Answer 23

“O valiant cousins! Worthy gentleman”

Question 24

Duncan rewarding

Answer 24

“With his former title greet Macbeth”

Question 25

Duncan betrayed

Answer 25

“He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust” - ironic as followed by “enter Macbeth”

Question 26

Witches portentous

Answer 26

“So foul and fair a day I have not seen”

Question 27

Witches masculine

Answer 27

“You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so”

Question 28

Witches unearthly

Answer 28

“(Macbeth) what seem’d corporal melted as breath into the wind”

Question 29

Witches united

Answer 29

“I’ll give thee a wind. Thou’re kind. And I another” | “The weird sisters hand in hand”

Question 30

Witches timely

Answer 30

“(Macbeth) they met me in the day of success”

Question 31

Witches proud, successful and recognise evil

Answer 31

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes”

Question 32

Witches equivocal

Answer 32

“None of woman born shall harm Macbeth”

Question 33

Witches credible

Answer 33

“All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor!”

Question 34

Witches scheming

Answer 34

“Double, double, toil and trouble; fire burn and cauldron bubble”

Question 35

Witches bewildering

Answer 35

“Not so happy, yet much happier”

Question 36

Witches tempting

Answer 36

“All hail, Macbeth, thou shalt be king hereafter”

Question 37

Witches supernatural

Answer 37

“So wither’d and so wild … That look not like the inhabitants o’ the earth”

Question 38

Witches butter

Answer 38

“I’ll drain him dry as hay”

Question 39

Macbeth valiant

Answer 39

“His brandish’d steel…smoked with blood execution”

Question 40

M respected

Answer 40

“O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman”

Question 41

M loving

Answer 41

“My dearest partner of greatness”

Question 42

M curious

Answer 42

“Stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more”

Question 43

M not naturally ruthless

Answer 43

“..too full o’ the milk of human kindness”

Question 44

M pessimistic

Answer 44

“ I have no spur to prick the sides of my intention, but only vaulting ambition”

Question 45

M unconvinced

Answer 45

“I dare do all that may become a man;who dares do more is none”

Question 46

M regretful

Answer 46

“Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!”

Question 47

M committed

Answer 47

“I am in blood stepp’d I’m so far that, should wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er”

Question 48

M fearless and misled

Answer 48

“Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsiane, I cannot taint with fear”

Question 49

M subborn

Answer 49

“I will not yield to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet”

Question 50

M godless

Answer 50

“ I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’ stuck in my throat” “Devilish Macbeth”

Question 51

M conflicted

Answer 51

“…his host…should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself”

Question 52

M pensive

Answer 52

“This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill , cannot be good”

Question 53

M admired

Answer 53

(Seargent) “brave Macbeth — we’ll be deserves that name”

Question 54

Banquo disbelieving

Answer 54

“Have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?”

Question 55

B cautious

Answer 55

“…instruments of darkness tell us truths”

Question 56

B troubled

Answer 56

By the prophecy | “A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, and yet I would not sleep”

Question 57

B tempted

Answer 57

“May they not be oracles as well and set me up in hope?”

Question 58

B a threat

Answer 58

Macbeth “there is none but he whose being I do fear.

Question 59

B vengeful

Answer 59

“Thou may revenge”

Question 60

B protective

Answer 60

“Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!”