Macbeth quotations Flashcards
“Fair is Foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air”
Act 1, Scene 1
-Witches
“As sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion”
Act 1, Scene 2
-King Duncan
“What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won”
Act 1, Scene 2
-King Duncan
“A foul and fair a day I have not seen”
Act 1, Scene 3
-Macbeth
“This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill; cannot be good”
Act 1, Scene 3
-Macbeth
“Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair”
Act 1, Scene 3
-Macbeth
“Look, how our partner’s rapt”
Act 1, Scene 3
-Banquo
“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face”
Act 1, Scene 4
-King Duncan
“He was gentleman on whom I built An absolute trust”
Act 1, Scene 4
-King Duncan
“our duties are to your throne and state”
Act 1, Scene 4
-Macbeth
That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap”
Act 1, Scene 4
-Macbeth
“Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires”
Act 1, Scene 4
-Macbeth
“I fear thy nature; It is too full o’th milk of human kindness”
Act 1, Scene 5 (Lady Macbeth Soliloquy)
-Lady Macbeth
“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”
Act 1, Scene 5
-Lady Macbeth
“Hie thee hither, That I may pour my spirits in thine ear, And chastise with the valour of my tongue”
Act 1, Scene 5 (Lady Macbeth Soliloquy)
“And take my ,milk for gall, your murd’ring ministers”
Act 1, Scene 5
-Lady Macbeth
“O, never Shall sun that morrow see!”
Act 1, Scene 5
-Lady Macbeth
“look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”
Act 1, Scene 5
-Lady Macbeth
“I have no spur to prick the side of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other”
Act 1, Scene 7
-Macbeth
“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?”
Act 1, Scene 7
-Lady Macbeth
“When you durst do it, then you were a man;”
Act 1, Scene 7
-Lady Macbeth
“But screw your courage to the sticking place”
Act 1, Scene 7
-Lady Macbeth
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know”
Act 1, Scene 7
-Lady Macbeth
“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”
Act 2, Scene 1
-MACBETH
“That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold”
Act 2, Scene 2
-Lady Macbeth
“I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry”
Act 2, Scene 2
“Consider it not so deeply”
Act 2, Scene 2
-Lady MACBETH
“But wherefore could no I pronounce ‘Amen’?”
Act 2, Scene 2
-Macbeth
“These deeds must noy be thought After these ways; so,it will make us mad”
Act 2, Scene 2
-Lady Macbeth
-PROLEPHTIC IRONY
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas of incarnadine”
Act 2, Scene 2
-Macbeth
“A little water clears us of this deed”
Act 2, Scene 2
-Lady Macbeth
“Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord’s anointed temple”
Act 2, Scene 3
-Macduff
“Who can be wise, amaz’d, temperate, and furious, Loyal and neutral in the Moment? No man”
Act 2, Scene 3
-Macbeth
“Here lay Duncan, His silver skin lac’d with his golden blood; And his gash’d stabs look’d like a breach in nature (…)”
Act 2, Scene 3
-Macbeth
“There’s daggers in men’s miles: the near in blood, the nearer bloody”
Act 2, Scene 3 (Donalbain)
“Thou play’dst most foully for’t; yet it was said”
Act 3, Scene 1 (Banquo’s suspicion of Macbeth)
“To be thus is nothing, But to be safely thus, Our fears in Banquo Stick deep”
Act 3, Scene 1
-Macbeth
“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”
Act 3, Scene 1
-Macbeth
“Rather than so, come, fate, into the list, And champion me to th’ utterance”
Act 3, Scene 1
-Macbeth
“Must lave our honours in these flattering streams, And make our faces vizards to our hearts”
Act 3, Scene 2
“Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck, Till thou applaud the deed”
Act 3, Scene 2
“[The Ghost of Banquo rises, and sits in Macbeth’s place]”
Act 3, Scene 4
“Hail, King, for so thou art. Behold, where stands Th’ usurper’s cursed head: the time free”
Macduff
Act 5, Scene 8
‘I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of woman born”
Act 5, Scene 8
Macbeth
“She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word”
Macbeth
Act 5, Scene 6
“Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas’d(…) which weighs upon the heart”
Macbeth
Act 5, Scene 3
“Out damned spot!”
Lady Macbeth
Act 5, Scene 1
Malcolm: “Dispute it like a man”
Macduff: “I shall do so; But I must also feel it as man”
Manhood compressing on not just aggression.
Act 4, Scene 3
“Macduff, this noble passion (…) reconcil’d my thoughts to thy good truth and honour”
Malcolm
Act 4, Scene 3
“Fit to govern? No, not to live- O nation miserable”
Macduff to Malcolm
Act 4, Scene 3
“Then the liars and swearers are fools: for there are liars and swearers enow to beat the honest men and hang up them “
Macduff’s Son
One can seemingly triumphant in lying (Macbeth).
Act 4, Scene 2
“Double, Double toil and trouble; Fire, burn; cauldron, bubble”
Witches
Act 4, Scene 1
“By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.”
Second Witch
Act 4, Scene (before appartitions)
“Then come my fit again; I had else been perfect”
Macbeth (since Fleance escaped)
Act 3, Scene 5
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
Macbeth
“Plucked its boneless gums from my nipples and dash’d its brains out”
Lady Macbeth
