Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
Lady Macbeth
‘Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’ Act 1
‘Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from crown to the toe top full of directest cruelty’ Act 1
‘Art thou afraid’ Act 1
‘To be the same in thine own act and valour’ Act 1
‘have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, has i so sworn as you have done to this.’ Act 1
‘Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had don’t,’ Act 2
‘whats done is done’ Act 3
‘are you a man’ Act 3
‘Out damn spot out’ Act 5
‘all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’ Act 5
‘what’s done cannot be undone’ Act 5
Macbeth
‘I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none’ Act 1
‘Is This A Dagger Which I See Before Me’ Macbeth Act 2
‘Macbeth does murder sleep’ (Macbeth hears this) Act 2
‘Barefaced power’ Act 3
‘not i’ the worst rank of manhood’ Act 3
‘we have scorched the snake not killed it’ Act 3
‘in the affliction of these terrible dreams’ Act 3
‘the grown serpent lies’ Act 3
‘you cannot say I did it’ Act 3
‘Though you untie the winds and let them fight against the churches’ Act 4
‘an eternal curse falls on you’ Act 4
‘The very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand’ Act 4
‘I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked.’ Act 5
‘I will not be afraid of death and bane,’ Act 5
‘life is a tale told by an idiot’ Act 5
‘life is but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage’ Act 5
‘Bring me no more reports; let them fly all:
Till Birnam wood remove to Dunsinane’ Act 5
Ambition
‘Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’ Lady Macbeth Act 1
Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from crown to the toe top full of directest cruelty’ Lady Macbeth Act 1
‘I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more in none’ Macbeth Act 1
‘have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out, has i so sworn as you have done to this.’ Lady Macbeth Act 1
‘Is This A Dagger Which I See Before Me’ Macbeth Act 2
Evil
‘Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from crown to the toe top full of directest cruelty’ Lady Macbeth Act 1
‘Is This A Dagger Which I See Before Me’ Macbeth Act 2
‘I dreamt last night of the weird sisters; to you they have shown some truth’ Banquo Act 2
‘dark night strangles the travelling lamp’ Ross Act 2
‘the grown serpent lies’ Macbeth Act 3
‘Of horrid hell can a devil more damned in evils to top Macbeth’. Macduff Act 4
Power an Kingship
‘Is This A Dagger Which I See Before Me’ Macbeth Act 2
‘Barefaced power’ Macbeth Act 3
‘O, treachery!’ Banquo Act 3
‘this tyrant’ Lennox Act 3
‘I will not be afraid of death and bane,’ Act 5
Masculinity
‘Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here and fill me from crown to the toe top full of directest cruelty’ Lady Macbeth Act 1
‘Art thou afraid’ Lady Macbeth Act 1
‘let’s briefly put on manly readiness’ Macbeth Act 2
‘are you a man’ Macbeth Act 3
‘I must also feel it as a man’ Macbeth Act 4
‘I will not be afraid of death and bane,’ Act 5
Deceptive appearances
‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair,’ The witches Act 1 (equivocation)
‘Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’ Lady Macbeth Act 1
‘I think not of them’ Macbeth Act 2
‘Barefaced power’ Macbeth Act 3
Guilt and conscience
‘Is This A Dagger Which I See Before Me’ Macbeth Act 2
‘you cannot say I did it’ Macbeth Act 3
‘Out damn spot out’ Lady Macbeth Act 5
‘all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’ Lady Macbeth Act 5
‘what’s done cannot be undone’ Lady Macbeth Act 5
Violence
‘Is This A Dagger Which I See Before Me’ Macbeth Act 2
‘I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked.’ Macbeth Act 5
either thou, Macbeth, Or else my sword with an unbattered edge I sheath again undead’ Macduff Act 5
