macbeth MACBETH Flashcards
Or art thou…’
‘Or art thou but a dagger of the mind a false creation proceeding from the heat oppressed brain’
‘If good…’
‘If good, why do I yield to this suggestion? Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs.’
‘Is this…’
‘Is this the dagger which I see before me? The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee’
‘Upon my head…’
‘Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren sceptre in my gripe’
‘To be thus…’
‘To be thus is nothing but to be safely thus’
‘The castle…’
‘The castle of Macduff I will surprise; Seize upon Fife; give to the the edge o’ my sword; His wife his babes and all unfortunate souls that trace him in his line’
‘Out, out…’
‘Out, out brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow; a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon stage. And then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury signifying nothing.’
‘I have no spur…’
’ i have no spur that pricks the side of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other’
‘My dearest…’
‘My dearest partner of greatness’
‘O full of scorpions…’
‘O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife’
‘O valiant…’
‘O valiant cousin worthy gentleman’
‘Of this dead…’
‘of this dead butcher and his fiend like queen’
if chance will…
if chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me
i will fight till…
i will fight till from my bones my flesh be hack’d
so foul and fair…
so foul and fair a day i have not seen
