macbeth quotes Flashcards
When the battle’s…
Lost and won (the witches)
Fair is foul…
And foul is fair (the witches)
For brave Macbeth…
- well he deserves that name (a captain about Macbeth)
His brandished steel…
which smoked with bloody execution (about Macbeth)
Unseamed him…
From the nave to the chops (about Macbeth)
So foul and fair…
A day I have not seen (Macbeth)
So withered and so wild…
In their attire, that look not like the inhabitants of the Earth, and yet are on it? (Banquo, about the witches)
Lesser than Macbeth…
And greater. Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none. (witches, about Banquo)
Stars, hide your fires…
Let not light see my black and deep desires (Macbeth)
Yet I do fear thy nature…
It is too full of the milk of human kindness (Lady Macbeth about 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 (Lady Macbeth)
Come to my woman’s breasts…
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers (Lady Macbeth)
Look like th’ innocent flower…
but be the serpent under’t (Lady Macbeth
Vaulting ambition…
which o’erleap’s itself and falls on th’other (Macbeth)
Is this a dagger…
which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation? (Macbeth)
Nature seems dead…
and wicked dreams abuse the curtained sleep (Macbeth)
But wherefore could I not pronounce…
Amen? I had most need of blessing, and Amen stuck in my throat (Macbeth)
There’s daggers…
in men’s smiles (Macbeth)
There the grown…
serpent lies. The worm that’s fled hath nature that in time will venom breed (Macbeth about Banquo and Fleance)
Are you…
a man? (Lady Macbeth about Macbeth)
He is noble, wise…
judicious, and best knows the fits o’ th’ season. (Ross, about Macduff)
This tyrant…
whose sole name blisters our tongues, was once thought honest (Malcolm, about Macbeth)
Out…
damned spot! Out, I say! (Lady Macbeth)
Here’s the smell…
of blood still, all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. (Lady Macbeth)
I’ll fight till from my bones…
my flesh be hacked. Give me my armour. (Macbeth)
She should have…
…died hereafter; there would have been time for such a word (Macbeth about Lady Macbeth)
Macduff was from his mother’s womb…
untimely ripped
Of this dead butcher…
and his fiend like queen
wisdom that doth…
guide his valour (macbeth about banquo)
neither beg nor…
fear your favours or your hate (banquo about the witches)
often times, to win us to our harm…
the instruments of darkness tell us truths; win us with honest trifles to betray’s in deepest consequence (banquo, about the supernatural)
this supernatural soliciting…
cannot be ill, cannot be good (macbeth)
that i may pour…
my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue (lady macbeth)
