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?’
