Macbeth Character Quotes Flashcards
Sergeant says:
‘For ____ Macbeth - well he _________ that name.’
What Act?
‘For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name.’
Act 1 Scene 2
Sergeant says:
‘nor bade ____ to him, till he ____ him from the ____ to the ____.’
What Act?
‘nor bade farewell to him, till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps.’
Act 1 Scene 2
Sergeant says:
‘As canons overcharged with ____ ____, so they ____ ____ strokes upon the foe.’
What Act?
‘As canons overcharged with double cracks, so they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.’
Act 1 Scene 2
Ross describes Macbeth as:
‘Bellona’s ____’
What Act?
‘Bellona’s bridegroom’
Act 1 Scene 2
Duncan says:
‘Go pronounce his ____ ____, and with his ____ title ____ ____.’
What Act?
‘Go pronounce his present death, and with his former title greet Macbeth.’
Act 1 Scene 2
Duncan says:
‘What he hath ____ ____ ____ hath won.’
What Act?
‘What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won.’
Act 1 Scene 2
‘So ____ and ____ a day I have not ____.’
What Act?
‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen.’
Act 1 Scene 3
Macbeth to the witches:
‘Speak, I ____ ____.’
What Act?
‘Speak, I charge you.’
Act 1 Scene 3
‘Why do you ____ me in ____ ____.’
What Act?
‘Why do you dress me in borrow’d robes.’
Act 1 Scene 3
Macbrth takes the role of Cawdor, who Angus says:
‘He ____ in his country’s ____.’
What Act?
‘He labour’d in his country’s wreck.’
Act 1 Scene 3
‘____ and ____ runs through the ____ day.’
What Act?
‘Time and hour runs through the roughest day.’
Act 1 Scene 3
Duncan: ‘But signs of ____, like ____, ____ ____ on all ____.’
Macbeth: ‘____, ____ your ____; Let not ____ see my ____ and ____ ____.’
What Act?
Duncan: ‘But signs of nobleness, like stars, shall shine on all deservers.’
Macbeth: ‘Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.’
Act 1 Scene 4
‘make ____ the hearing of my ____ with your ____;’
What Act?
‘make joyful the hearing of my wife with your approach;’
Act 1 Scene 4
Lady Macbeth says about Macbeth:
‘It is too ____ o’ the ____ of human ____ to ____ the nearest way.’
What Act?
‘It is too full o’ the milk of human kindess to catch the nearest way.’
Act 1 Scene 5
About Duncaan’s upcoming murder:
‘this blow might be the ____ and the ____ here,’
What Act?
‘this blow might be the be-all and the end-all here,’
Act 1 Scene 7
‘that we but ____ ____ instructions, which, being taught, ____ to ____ the inventor’
What Act?
‘that we but teach bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor’
Act 1 Scene 7
Talking about Duncan:
‘So ____, hath been so ____ in his great office, that his ____ will ____ like ____,’
What Act?
‘So meek, hath been so clear in his great office, that his virtues will plead like angels,’
Act 1 Scene 7
Macbeth doesn’t want to kill Duncan as he has bought ‘____ opinions from all ____ of ____’.
What Act?
‘Golden opinions from all sorts of people’.
Act 1 Scene 7
After Lady Macbeth calls him a coward for backing out:
‘I ____ do all that may ____ a ____.’
What Act?
‘I dare do all that may become a man.’
Act 1 Scene 7
Dagger scene:
‘Is this a ____ which I see ____ me, the ____ ____ my hand? ____, let me ____ thee.
‘A dagger of the ____, a ____ creation, proceeding from the ____ - ____ ____?’
What Act?
‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.
‘A dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?’
Act 2 Scene 1
‘Hear it not Duncan; for it a ____ that ____ thee to ____ or to ____.’
What Act?
‘Hear it not Duncan; for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.’
Act 2 Scene 1
About Duncan:
‘Whiles I ____, he ____: words to the ____ of deeds too ____ ____ gives.’
What Act?
‘Whiles I threat, he lives: words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.’
Act 2 Scene 1
Dagger scene:
‘And on thy ____ and dudgeon ____ of ____,’
What Act?
‘And on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood,’
Act 2 Scene 1
After Duncan is killed by Macbeth:
Stage direction: Enter Macbeth with ____ ____ ____
What Act?
Stage direction: Enter Macbeth with two bloody daggers
Act 2 Scene 2
After he kills Duncan:
‘Methought I ____ a ____ cry ‘____ no ____! Macbeth does ____ ____’’
What Act?
‘Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep’
Act 2 Scene 2
After killing Duncan:
‘Will all great ____ ____ wash this ____ ____ from my hand?’
What Act?
‘Will all great Neptune’s oean wash this blood clean from my hand?’
Act 2 Scene 2
After killing Duncan:
‘To know my ____, ____ best not ____ ____.’
What Act?
‘To know my deed, ‘twere best not know myself.’
Act 2 Scene 2
Showing his regret of killing Duncan:
‘____ Duncan with thy ____! I ____ thou couldst!’
What Act?
‘Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!’
Act 2 Scene 2
He says to the other after they discover Duncan’s body:
‘had I but ____ an ____ before this chance, I had ____ a ____ ____;’
What Act?
‘had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time;’
Act 2 Scene 3
Talking about Duncan:
‘His ____ ____ laced with his ____ ____; and his gash’d ____ look’d like a ____ in ____ for ____ wasteful ____:’
What Act?
‘His silver skin laced with his golden blood; and his gash’d stabs look’d like a breach in nature for ruin’s wasteful entrance:’
Act 2 Scene 3
He says in another soliloquy;
‘To be ____ is ____; but to be ____ ____. - Our ____ in ____ ____ deep;’
What Act?
‘To be thus is nothing; but to be safely thus. - Our fears in Banquo stick deep;’
Act 3 Scene 1
‘Upon my ____ they placed a ____ ____, and put a ____ ____ in my ____,’
What Act?
‘Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, and put a barren sceptre in my gripe,’
Act 3 Scene 1
‘For Banquo’s ____ have I ____ my ____; for them the ____ ____ have I ____; put ____ in the vessel of my ____ ____ for ____;’
What Act?
‘For Banquo’s issue have I filed my mind; for them the gracious Duncan have I murdered; put rancours in the vessel of my peace only for them;’
Act 3 Scene 1
He says to the murderers:
‘Both of you ____ Banquo was your ____.’
What Act?
‘Both of you know Banquo was your enemy.’
Act 3 Scene 1
Macbeth tells the murderers about Banquo’s son:
‘must ____ the ____ of that ____ hour.’
What Act?
‘must embrace the fate of that dark hour.’
Act 3 Scene 1
Macbeth tells the murderers:
‘To leave no ____ nor ____ in the work-‘
What Act?
‘To leave no rubs nor botches in the work-‘
Act 3 Scene 1
Macbeth says about Banquo:
‘It is concluded. Banquo, thy ____ ____, if it find ____, must ____ it out ____.’
What Act?
‘It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul’s flight, if it find heaven, must find it out tonight.’
Act 3 Scene 1
‘better be with the ____, whom we, to gain our ____, have sent to ____, than on the ____ of the ____ to lie in ____ ____.’
What Act?
‘better be with the dead, whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace, than on the tortue of the mind to lie in restless ecstasy.’
Act 3 Scene 2
He says to Lady Macbeth:
‘We have ____ the snake, not ____ it:’
What Act?
‘We have scotch’d the snake, not kill’d it:’
Act 3 Scene 2
‘O full of ____ is my ____, ____ wife!’
What Act?
‘O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!’
Act 3 Scene 2
He says to Lady Macbeth:
‘Be ____ of the ____, ____ chuck, till thou ____ the ____.’
What Act?
‘Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, till thou applaud the deed.’
Act 3 Scene 2
‘Things ____ begun make ____ themselves by ____.’
What Act?
‘Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.’
Act 3 Scene 2
Macbeth after he finds out Banquo’s been killed:
‘Tis ____ thee ____ than he ____.’
What Act?
‘Tis better thee without than he within.’
Act 3 Scene 4
About Banquo’s murder:
Murderer: ‘With ____ ____ ____ on his head; the least a ____ to ____.’
Macbeth: ‘____ for that.’
What Act?
Murderer: ‘With twenty trenched gashes on his head; the least a death to nature.’
Macbeth: ‘Thanks for that.’
Act 3 Scene 4
‘There the ____ ____ lies; the ____ that’s ____, hath ____ that in time will ____ ____,’
What Act
‘There the grown serpent lies; the worm that’s fled, hath nature that in time will venom breed,’
Act 3 Scene 4
At the Banqet:
‘The table’s ____.’
What Act?
‘The table’s full.’
Act 3 Scene 4
At the banquet:
‘Thy bones are ____, thy ____ is ____; Thou hast no ____ in those eyes’
What Act?
‘Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; Thou hast no speculation in those eyes’
Act 3 Scene 4
To Banquo’s ghost at the banquet:
‘Approach thou like the ____ Russian ____, the ____ rhinocerous, or the ____ ____;’
What Act?
‘Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, the arm’d rhinocerous, or the Hyrcan tiger;’
Act 3 Scene 4
Macbeth talking about his face at the banquet:
‘And keep the ____ ____ of your ____, when mine is ____ with ____.’
What Chapter?
‘And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks, when mine is blanched with fear.’
Act 3 Scene 4
‘It will have ____; they say, ____ will have ____:’
What Act?
‘It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood:’
Act 3 Scene 4
‘I am in ____ ____ in so far that, should I ____ no more,’
‘I am in blood ‘stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more,’
‘Returning were as ____ as to go ____’
What Act?
‘Returning were as tedious as to go o’er’
Act 3 Scene 4
Macbeth tells her:
‘We are yet but ____ in ____.’
What Act?
‘We are yet but young in deed.’
Act 3 Scene 4
‘The very ____ of my ____ shall be the ____ of my hands.’
What Act?
‘The very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand.’
Act 4 Scene 1
‘Seize upon ____; ____ to the ____ o’ the ____ His wife, his ____ and all ____ ____’
What Act?
‘Seize upon Fife; give to the edge o’ the sword His wife, his babes and all unfortunate souls’
Act 4 Scene 1
Malcolm describes Macbeth as:
‘____ Macbeth’
What Act?
‘Devilish Macbeth’
Act 4 Scene 3
Angus says about Macbeth’s role:
‘his title hang ____ about him, like a ____ ____ upon a ____ ____.’
What Act?
‘his title hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief.’
Act 5 Scene 2
‘I cannot taint with ____.’
What Act?
‘I cannot taint with fear.’
Act 5 Scene 3
‘the heart I bear shall never ____ with ____ nor ____ with ____.’
What Act?
‘the heart I bear shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear.’
Act 5 Scene 3
‘I’ll ____ till from my ____ my ____ be hack’d. Give me my ____.’
What Act?
‘I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hack’d. Give me my armour.’
Act 5 Scene 3
Macbeth tells the doctor about Lady Macbeth:
‘____ her of that.’
What Act?
‘Cure her of that.’
Act 5 Scene 3
Macbeth tells the doctor about Lady Macbeth:
‘Cleanse the ____ ____ of that ____ stuff which ____ upon the ____?’
What Act?
‘Cleanse the stuff’d bosom of that perilous stuff which weighs upon the heart?’
Act 5 Scene 3
He says about the people not supporting him:
‘here let them lie till ____ and the ____ ____ them up:’
What Act?
‘here let them lie till famine and the ague eat them up:’
Act 5 Scene 5
‘I have almost ____ the taste of ____;’
What Act?
‘I have almost forgot the taste of fears;’
Act 5 Scene 5
When he finds out Lady Macbeth has died:
‘She ____ have died ____;’
What Act?
‘She should have died hereafter;’
Act 5 Scene 5
‘Out, ____, brief ____!’
What Act?
‘Out, out, brief candle!’
Act 5 Scene 5
‘it is a ____ told by an ____, full of sound and ____, signifying ____.’
What Act?
‘it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.’
Act 5 Scene 5
‘Life’s but a walking ____, a ____ ____ that struts and ____ his ____ upon the ____ and then is heard no more.’
What Act?
‘Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.’
Act 5 Scene 5
‘Why should I play the ____ ____, and ____ on mine own ____?’
What Act?
‘Why should I play the Roman fool, and die on mine own sword?’
Act 5 Scene 8
‘My soul is too much ____ with ____ of thine ____.’
What Act?
‘My soul is too much charged with blood of thine already.’
Act 5 Scene 8
Macbeth talking about Macduff:
‘what need I ____ of thee?
But yet I’ll make ____ ____ ____,’
What Act?
‘what need I fear of thee?
But yet I’ll make assurance double sure,’
Act 4 Scene 1
Macbeth talks rudely to the witches:
‘I will be ____: ____ me this,
and an ____ ____ ____ on you!’
What Act?
‘I will be satisfied: deny me this,
and an eternal curse fall on you!’
Act 4 Scene 1
‘Thy crown does ____ ____ ____ - ____.’
What Act?
‘Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls.’
Act 4 Scene 1
He calls the witches:
‘____ hags!’
What Act?
‘Filthy hags!’
Act 4 Scene 1
Menteith, one of the Scottish thanes talks about the incoming English:
‘____ ____ in them; for their dear causes would to the ____ and the ____ ____ ____ the ____ man.’
What Act?
‘Revenges burn in them; for their dear causes would to the bleeding and the grim alarm excite the mortified man.’
Act 5 Scene 2
Macbeth tells Seyton:
‘Seyton! - I am ____ at ____,’
What Act?
‘Seyton! - I am sick at heart,’
Act 5 Scene 3
‘This supernatural ____ ____ ____ ____, ____ ____ ____:’
What Act?
‘This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good:’
Act 1 Scene 3
