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Macbeth quotations Flashcards

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“Fair is Foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air”

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Act 1, Scene 1
-Witches

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“As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion”

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Act 1, Scene 2
-King Duncan

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“What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won”

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Act 1, Scene 2
-King Duncan

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“A foul and fair a day I have not seen”

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Act 1, Scene 3
-Macbeth

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“This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill; cannot be good”

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Act 1, Scene 3
-Macbeth

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“Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair”

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Act 1, Scene 3
-Macbeth

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“Look, how our partner’s rapt”

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Act 1, Scene 3
-Banquo

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“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face”

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Act 1, Scene 4
-King Duncan

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“He was gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust”

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Act 1, Scene 4
-King Duncan

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“our duties are to your throne and state”

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Act 1, Scene 4
-Macbeth

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That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap”

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Act 1, Scene 4
-Macbeth

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“Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires”

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Act 1, Scene 4
-Macbeth

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“I fear thy nature; It is too full o’th milk of human kindness”

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Act 1, Scene 5 (Lady Macbeth Soliloquy)
-Lady Macbeth

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“Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty”

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Act 1, Scene 5
-Lady Macbeth

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“Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear, And chastise with the valour of my tongue”

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Act 1, Scene 5 (Lady Macbeth Soliloquy)

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“And take my ,milk for gall, your murd’ring ministers”

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Act 1, Scene 5
-Lady Macbeth

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“O, never Shall sun that morrow see!”

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Act 1, Scene 5
-Lady Macbeth

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“look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”

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Act 1, Scene 5
-Lady Macbeth

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“I have no spur to prick the side of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other”

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Act 1, Scene 7
-Macbeth

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“Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress’s yourself? Hath it slept since? And wakes it now, to look so green and pale At what it did so freely?”

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Act 1, Scene 7
-Lady Macbeth

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“When you durst do it, then you were a man;”

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Act 1, Scene 7
-Lady Macbeth

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“But screw your courage to the sticking place”

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Act 1, Scene 7
-Lady Macbeth

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“False face must hide what the false heart doth know”

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Act 1, Scene 7
-Lady Macbeth

23
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“Is this a dagger which I see before me (…) I have thee not, and yet U see thee still(…) art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation”

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Act 2, Scene 1
-MACBETH

24
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“That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold”

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Act 2, Scene 2
-Lady Macbeth

25
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“I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry”

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Act 2, Scene 2

26
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“Consider it not so deeply”

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Act 2, Scene 2
-Lady MACBETH

27
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“But wherefore could no I pronounce ‘Amen’?”

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Act 2, Scene 2
-Macbeth

28
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“These deeds must noy be thought After these ways; so,it will make us mad”

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Act 2, Scene 2
-Lady Macbeth
-PROLEPHTIC IRONY

29
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“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas of incarnadine”

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Act 2, Scene 2
-Macbeth

30
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“A little water clears us of this deed”

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Act 2, Scene 2
-Lady Macbeth

31
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“Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord’s anointed temple”

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Act 2, Scene 3
-Macduff

32
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“Who can be wise, amaz’d, temperate, and furious, Loyal and neutral in the Moment? No man”

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Act 2, Scene 3
-Macbeth

33
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“Here lay Duncan, His silver skin lac’d with his golden blood; And his gash’d stabs look’d like a breach in nature (…)”

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Act 2, Scene 3
-Macbeth

34
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“There’s daggers in men’s miles: the near in blood, the nearer bloody”

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Act 2, Scene 3 (Donalbain)

35
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“Thou play’dst most foully for’t; yet it was said”

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Act 3, Scene 1 (Banquo’s suspicion of Macbeth)

36
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“To be thus is nothing, But to be safely thus, Our fears in Banquo Stick deep”

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Act 3, Scene 1
-Macbeth

37
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“They hail’d him father to a line of kings: Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown, And put a barren sceptre in my gripe, Thence to be wrench’d with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding”

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Act 3, Scene 1
-Macbeth

38
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“Rather than so, come, fate, into the list, And champion me to th’ utterance”

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Act 3, Scene 1
-Macbeth

39
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“Must lave our honours in these flattering streams, And make our faces vizards to our hearts”

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Act 3, Scene 2

40
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“Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed”

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Act 3, Scene 2

41
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“[The Ghost of Banquo rises, and sits in Macbeth’s place]”

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Act 3, Scene 4

42
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“Hail, King, for so thou art. Behold, where stands Th’ usurper’s cursed head: the time free”

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Macduff
Act 5, Scene 8

43
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‘I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of woman born”

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Act 5, Scene 8
Macbeth

44
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“She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word”

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Macbeth
Act 5, Scene 6

45
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“Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas’d(…) which weighs upon the heart”

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Macbeth
Act 5, Scene 3

46
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“Out damned spot!”

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Lady Macbeth
Act 5, Scene 1

47
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Malcolm: “Dispute it like a man”
Macduff: “I shall do so; But I must also feel it as man”

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Manhood compressing on not just aggression.
Act 4, Scene 3

48
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“Macduff, this noble passion (…) reconcil’d my thoughts to thy good truth and honour”

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Malcolm
Act 4, Scene 3

49
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“Fit to govern? No, not to live- O nation miserable”

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Macduff to Malcolm
Act 4, Scene 3

50
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“Then the liars and swearers are fools: for there are liars and swearers enow to beat the honest men and hang up them “

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Macduff’s Son
One can seemingly triumphant in lying (Macbeth).
Act 4, Scene 2

51
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“Double, Double toil and trouble; Fire, burn; cauldron, bubble”

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Witches
Act 4, Scene 1

52
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“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.”

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Second Witch
Act 4, Scene (before appartitions)

53
Q

“Then come my fit again; I had else been perfect”

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Macbeth (since Fleance escaped)
Act 3, Scene 5

54
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The castle of Macduff I will surprise; seize upon Fife; give to the edge o’ the sword his wife his babes, and all the unfortunate souls

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Macbeth

55
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“Plucked its boneless gums from my nipples and dash’d its brains out”

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Lady Macbeth

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