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)

Answer 9

The gracious Duncan was pitied of Macbeth

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 supernatural (3)

Answer 16

Thunder and lightning

Question 17

Key quote for reality vs appearances (1)

Answer 17

There’s daggers in men’s smiles

Question 18

Key quote for reality vs appearances (2)

Answer 18

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

Question 19

Key quote for reality vs appearances (3)

Answer 19

Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell

Question 20

Key quote for good and evil (1)

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Key quote for good and evil (2)

Answer 21

As cannons over-charged with double cracks

Question 22

Key quote for gender roles (1)

Answer 22

Unsex me here

Question 23

Key quote for gender roles (2)

Answer 23

When you durst do it, then you were a man

Question 24

Key quote for gender roles (3)

Answer 24

Screw your courage to the sticking place

Question 25

Key quote for gender roles (4)

Answer 25

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

Question 26

Key quote for gender roles (5)

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Key quote for gender roles (6)

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Key quote for order and chaos (1)

Answer 28

‘tis said, they eat each other

Question 29

Key quote for order and chaos (2)

Answer 29

A falcon…was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d

Question 30

Key quote for power (1)

Answer 30

LADY MACBETH OVER MACBETH

Question 31

Key quote for power (2)

Answer 31

MACBETH OVER LADY MACBETH