Macbeth Key Quotes

Question 1

Macbeth’s key quote for ambition (1)

Answer 1

Why do I yield to that suggestion, whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature?

Question 2

Macbeth’s key quote for ambition (2)

Answer 2

Stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires.

Question 3

Macbeth’s key quote for ambition (3)

Answer 3

Vaulting ambition which overleaps itself.

Question 4

Macbeth’s key quote for ambition (4)

Answer 4

Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?

Question 5

Lady Macbeth’s key quote for ambition (1)

Answer 5

I may pour my spirits in thine ear.

Question 6

Lady Macbeth’s key quote for ambition (2)

Answer 6

Fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst crulety.

Question 7

Lady Macbeth’s key quote for ambition (3)

Answer 7

Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.

Question 8

Key quote for kingship (1)

Answer 8

His silver skin laced with his golden blood.

Question 9

Key quote for kingship (2)

Question 10

Key quote for fate and freewill (1)

Answer 10

Out, out brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow.

Question 11

Key quote for fate and freewill (2)

Answer 11

I go, and it is done. The bell invites me.

Question 12

Key quote for violence (1)

Answer 12

Unseamed him from the nave to the chops.

Question 13

Key quote for violence (2)

Answer 13

Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dash’s the brains out.

Question 14

Key quote for supernatural (1)

Answer 14

Fair is foul and foul is fair.

Question 15

Key quote for supernatural (2)

Answer 15

Methought I heard a voice cry.

Question 16

Key quote for reality vs appearances (1)

Answer 16

There’s daggers in men’s smiles.

Question 17

Key quote for reality vs appearances (2)

Answer 17

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown, and put a barren scepter in my gripe

Question 18

Key quote for reality vs appearances (3)

Answer 18

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell.

Question 19

Key quote for good and evil (1)

Answer 19

Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell.

Question 20

Key quote for good and evil (2)

Answer 20

As cannons over-charged with double cracks.

Question 21

Key quote for gender roles (1)

Answer 21

Unsex me here.

Question 22

Key quote for gender roles (2)

Answer 22

When you durst do it, then you were a man.

Question 23

Key quote for gender roles (3)

Answer 23

Screw your courage to the sticking place

Question 24

Key quote for gender roles (4)

Answer 24

My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white.

Question 25

Key quote for gender roles (5)

Answer 25

Gentle lady, tis not for you to hear what I can speak.

Question 26

Key quote for gender roles (6)

Answer 26

Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers.