Macbeth Quotations

Question 1

A1S1 - First Meeting of the Witches

Answer 1

• thunder and lightning
• fair is foul, and foul is fair

Question 2

A1S2 - Captain’s Speech

Answer 2

• brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name -
• smok’d with bloody execution
• unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps
• valiant cousin, worthy gentleman
• doubly redoubled
• they smack of honour both

Question 3

A1S3 - Witches Meeting Macbeth and Banquo

Answer 3

• a drum, a drum; Macbeth doth come
• so foul and fair a day
• look not like th’inhabitants o’th’earth
• shalt be king hereafter
• chance may crown me without my stir
• come what come may

Question 4

A1S4 - King Duncan meeting Macbeth

Answer 4

• there’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face
• I have begun to plant thee and will labour to make thee full of growing
• stars, hide your fires
• let not light see my black and deep desires
• the eye wink at the hand