Macbeth Character Quotes Flashcards
Quotes for Macbeth’s guilt
‘Stars, hide your fires’
‘Let not light see my black and deep desires’
‘as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself’
‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?’
‘Avaunt, and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!
Quotes for Macbeth’s ambition
‘The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’er leap, For in my way it lies’
‘Stars hide your fires’
‘Let not light see my black and deep desires’
‘For mine own good. All causes shall give way. I am in blood’
‘Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself
And falls on th’other’
Quotes for shift in Macbeth and Lady Macbeth’s relationship
‘Dearest chuck’
‘Be innocent of the knowledge’
‘What’s to be done?’ -A3 S2 -reduced to short lines
‘My royal lord’
Lady Macbeth quotes for her ambition
‘Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o’th’milk of human kindness’ (sees this as hinderance/obstacle in way of achieving ambitions)
‘Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it’
Quotes for Lady Macbeth pressuring/manipulating Macbeth
‘What beast was’t then, That made you break this eneterprise to me’ (less intimate ‘you’)
‘And live a coward’
‘When you durst do it, then you were a man’
‘Tis the eye of childhood, that fears a painted devil’ - after murder
‘Are you a man’ -Banquet
Lady Macbeth making excuse for her husband’s behaviour at the banquet
‘Sit, worthy friends. My Lord is often thus, And hath been from his youth.’
Lady Macbeth supernatural nature quotes
‘That I may pour my spirits into thine ear’ Act 1, Scene 5
‘….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’
‘All our service, / In every point twice done and then done double’
Quotes for Lady Macbeth’s guilt
Crazy, sleepwalking and sleeptalking
‘Out, damned spot! Out, I say!’ (Lost all control, even of her own thoughts)
‘Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much bloodin him?’
Quotes for witches’ supernatural nature
Thunder and lightning
‘Fair is foul and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air’
Thunder
‘Killing swine’
Banquo remarks ‘look not like th’inhabitants o’th’earth’
Witches’ confusing / equivocal language
‘When the hurly-burly’s done When the battle’s lost and won’
‘Lesser than Macbeth, and greater.’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier’.
Witches praising Macbeth
‘All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis
All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor
All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter’ - Already know him, manipulative
Witches warning Macbeth about Macduff
‘Beware Macduff
Beware the thane of Fife’
Quotes of Banquo being suspicious of Macbeth
‘I fear Thou playesd’st most foully for’t’
‘But hush, no more’
Banquo suspicious of the witches
‘What, can the devil speak true?’
‘And oftentimes, to win our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths’
Macbeth early on rejecting plan of regicide
‘Why do I yield to that suggestion, Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair’
‘We will proceed no further in this business’
Lady Macbeth brave quote
‘Had he not resembled/My father as he slept, I had done’t.’ (Ambition as well)
Macbeth paranoia quote
“To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus” Act 3 Scene 1
Quotes of noble Macbeth
‘Noble Macbeth’
‘My noble partner’
‘he unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps’
Macduff discovering murder
‘O horror, horror, horror!’
‘Toungue nor heart can conceive nor name thee!’
Most sacreligious murder hath broke ope
The Lord’s anointed temple
‘Approach the chamber and destroy your sight
With a new gorgon’
‘Murder and treason!’
Macbeth on his family’s killing
‘All my pretty ones? Did you say all?’
Lady M delicate ironic quote
O gentle lady,
Tis’ not for you to hear what I speak’
Macduff
Macduff grieving for Scotland
‘Bleed, bleed poor country! Great tyranny’
Macduff not following Macbeth to his coronation
‘No, cousin, I’ll to Fife’
(He doesn’t go to Scone’
Macduff’s answer to Malcom’s test
‘Fit to govern!
No, not to live’
Macduff birth quote
‘Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripped’
Macduff bravery at the end
‘Tyrant show thy face’
‘Let me find him, Fortune’
‘I have no words; My voice is in my sword’
Duncan foolish
‘Valiant cousin, worthy gentlemen’
‘There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face’
Duncan’s comments about Macbeth’s castle
‘This castle hath a pleasant seat’
‘Sweetly’, ‘gentle senses’, Soothing
Duncan’s words to Lady Macbeth
“honour’d hostess”
‘Fair and noble hostess”
Thanking her for her ‘trouble’
Duncan on Macbeth’s gains
‘What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won’
Divine and good nature of duncan description
‘Silver skin lac’d with his golden blood’
Duncan fully trusting old Thane of Cawdor
‘He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust’
Duncan talking about nobleness
signs of nobleness like stars shall shine. On all deserves.
Duncan on Banquo
‘I have begun to plant thee and will labour To make thee full of growing’ not selfish or power-hungry
Noble Banquo
That hast no less deserv’d
Lady M to Duncan upon arrival
‘We rest your hermits (servants) ever’
Malcom quotes
‘the whetstone of your sword: let grief
Convert to anger;
‘Let every soldier hew him down a bough’
Dying Banquo quote
‘O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
Thou may’st revenge – O slave!’
Macbeth earlier attitude on chance to be king
‘Why do you dress me in borrow’d robes?’
‘If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,
Without my stir’
Macbeth and banquo relationship
Macbeth: let us speak Our free hearts to each other.
Banquo: Very gladly.
(At the end of Act 1 Scene 3)
Banquo loyalty to Duncan
’ if I grow, the harvest is your own’
‘Still keep my… allegiance clear’
Lady Macbeth God seeing her actions
‘Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark’
Lady Macbeth no emotions
…of durest cruelty
Stop up th’access of passage to remorse
‘The ilness that should attend it’
Lady M in control
Leave all the rest to me
Nature after Duncan’s murder
‘I heard the owl scream and the cricket’s cry’ Lady M
Ross: Duncan’s horses ‘broke their stalls’
Macbeth sleep
‘Macbeth does murder sleep’, the innocent sleep
Macbeth fears Banquo
his royalty of nature
Jealous as Macbeth has a ‘fruitless crown’
And an ‘unlineal hand’, whereas Banquo will be.’father to a line of kings’
Macbeth jealpus of Duncan
He sleeps well
Murderer quote on Banquo
Who did strike out the light?
Imagery, metaphor
Macbeth fear
Compares gjost to russiaj bear, rhinoceros
‘Take any shape but that
After Ghost
You look but on a stool
After hears Fleance has escaled:
‘Then comes my fit (fear) again
‘But I am now cabin’d, cribb’d, comfin’d, bound in
To saucy doubts and fears.
Macbeth later refers to Banquo as
‘There the grown serpent lies’
