Macbeth linking quotes Flashcards
“As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion” - Sergeant Act 1 scene 2 (Animals)
“But bear-like I must fight the course” - Macbeth Act 5 Scene 7
“Stars, hide your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires” - Macbeth Act 1 Scene 4 (Deception)
“To beguile the time, / Look like the time… look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under’t” - LM Act 1 Scene 5
Come, you spirits… unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full / Of direst crulty! - LM Act 1 Scene 5 (Gender roles)
“to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly: why then, alas, Do I put up that womanly defence, To say I have done no harm?” - Lady Mcduff Act 4 Scene 2
“When you durst do it, then you were a man” - LM Act 1 Scene 7 (Insulting masculinity)
“in the catalogue ye go for men; / As hounds and greyhounds, mongrels… All by the name of dogs” - Macbeth Act 3 Scene 1
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?” - Macbeth Act 2 Scene 2 (Guilt, madness)
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” - LM Act 5 Scene 1
“my dearest partner of greatness” - Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5
“Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck” - Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2
“his virtues will plead like angels… against the deep damnation of his taking-off” - Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7
“Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell” - Malcolm Act 4 Scene 3
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles: the near in blood, The nearer bloody” - Donaldbain Act 2 Scene 3
“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face” - Duncan Act 1 Scene 4
“I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares more is none” - Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7
“What, quite unmann’d in folly?” - Lady Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4
“To be thus is nothing; but to be safely thus” - Macbeth Act 3 Scene 1
“We have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it” - Macbeth Act 3 Scene 2
