Macbeth Character Quotes

Question 1

Macbeth Act 1

Answer 1

• “Brave Macbeth”
• “Noble”
• “To be King stands not within the prospect of belief, no more than Cawdor”
• “2 truths are told, as happy prologues to the swelling act”
• “That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap… Stars hide your fires, let light not see my black and deep desires”
• “it”, “th’assassination”
• “trammel up th’consequences” and “jump the life to come”
• “Poison’d chalice”
• “Host who should against his murderers, shut the door”
• “has no spur to prick the side of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other”
• “We will proceed no further in this business”
• “False face must hide what false face doth know”

Question 2

Macbeth Act 2

Answer 2

• “Is this a dagger which I see before me? Come let me clutch thee”
• “A false creation proceeding from the heat oppressed mind”
• “Marshall’st me the way that I was going”
• “Could not pronounce Amen”
• “Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more: Macbeth shall sleep no more”
• “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hands? No, rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine”
• “What is amiss?” “You are”

Question 3

Macbeth Act 3

Answer 3

• “To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus”
• “Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown” “a barren sceptre in my gripe”
• “We have scorchd the snake not killed it”
• Duncan “sleeps well” and “nothing can touch him further”
• “Dearest Chuck”
• “Cabin’d, Cribb’d, Confin’d”
• “Bound in doubts and fears”
• “20 mortal murders on his crown”
• “approach thou like the rugged russian bear or the arm’d rhinocerous, take any shape but that”

Question 4

Macbeth Act 4

Answer 4

• “Something wicked comes this way”
• “fiend of Scotland”

Question 5

Macbeth Act 5

Answer 5

• “Those he commands, move only in command, nothing in love”
• “Honour, love, obidience, troop of friends I must not look to have”
• “Goose look” “lily livered boy”
• “Give me my armour”
• “My dearest love” → “she should have died hereafter”
• “Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow”
• “Hell hound”
• “I will not yield” “lay on Macduff”

Question 6

Lady Macbeth Act 1

Answer 6

• “Too full o’th’milk of human kindness”
• “Unsex me here”
• “Spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here” “murd’ring ministers” “hell”
• “Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”
• “all our service”
• “Brave warrior” “So green and pale” “live a coward in thine own self esteem” “then you were a man”
• “We fail?”

Question 7

Lady Macbeth Act 2

Answer 7

• “afraid they have awak’d”
• “had he not resembled my Father as he slep, I had don’t”
• “Go get some water” “a little water will clear us of this deed”
• “The repetition in a womans ear would murder as it fell”
• “help me, hence ho”

Question 8

Lady Macbeth Act 3

Answer 8

• “are you a man?”
• Macbeth: “You know your own degrees, sit down” Lady Macbeth: “Stand not upon the order of your going, but go at once”

Question 9

Lady Macbeth Act 5

Answer 9

• Act 5 Scene 1 in prose
• “she has a light by her continually”
• “out damned spot”
• “all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
• “This disease is beyond my practise”

Question 10

King Duncan

Answer 10

• “No more that thane of Cawdor shall deceive… and with his former title greet Macbeth”
• “he was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust”
• “this castle has a pleasant seat”
• “The air nimbly and gently recommends itself unto our gentle senses”
• “a temple haunting martlet”
• “God yields us”
• “honoured hostess” “fair and noble hostess” “hostess”
• “great love”
• “Great office, his virtues will plead like angels”

Question 11

Banquo

Answer 11

• “Noble”
• “neither beg nor fear your favours or your hate”
• “have we eaten upon the insane root?”
• “Why do you start?”
• air is “delicate”
• “take my sword” “cursed thoughts”
• Macbeth “hast is now, King, Cawdor, Glamis” “play’dst most foully for’t”
• “chief guest” “if he had been forgotten it would have been a gap in our great feast”
• “who did strike out the light?”

Question 12

Macduff

Answer 12

• “O horror, horror, horror”
• “murder and treason”
• “bleed, bleed poor country!” “O Scotland Scotland!”
• “not fit to govern” “not fit to live”
• “your wife and babes savagely slaughtered”
• “gentle heaven” “scape heaven”

Question 13

The Witches

Answer 13

• “Thunder and lightning”
• “When shall we three meet again?”
• rhyming trochaic metre
• “fair is foul and foul is fair”
• “Beards forbit me [Banquo] to interpret”
• “though his bark shall not be lost, yet it shall be tempest tossed”
• “Stay you imperfect speakers” → “vanish”
• “something wicked comes this way”

Question 14

Lennox

Answer 14

• “Chimneys blown over… strange screams of death… the earth was feverous and did shake”

Question 15

Malcolm

Answer 15

• “Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell”
• “confound all unity on earth”