Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
Macbeths reaction to the witches prophecies:
“This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good”
Lady Macbeth questioning Macbeths manliness:
“When you durst do it, then you were a man”
Suspicious of Banquo
“Our fears in Banquo sticks deep”
Reaction to Lady Macbeths death
“She would have died hereafter”
Reaction to Malcolm being announced as heir to the throne
“Stars hide your fires! “
Cannot sleep
“Glamis hath murdered sleep” “Macbeth shall sleep no more”
Ghost of Banquo haunts him
“Thou canst not say I did it”
Beginning- brave and noble character
“Brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name”
Decides he may as well carry on his evil
“I am in blood stepped in so far”
To fulfill his:
“Vaulting ambition”
Lady Macbeth tells her husband to:
“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t”
Tells his wife to: (paranoia)
“Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck”
Coldness
“I have almost forgot the taste of fears”
thinking about murdering Duncan creates a:
“horrid image”
uncertain whether to take the prophecies into his own hands or to see how it plans out:
“shakes so my single state of man”
Macduff describes Macbeth at the end of the play as a:
“dead butcher”
going against his nature to commit the murder:
“bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat”
decides that if the prophecies say he will be king, he will act upon it:
“if chance will have me king, he himself resolves”
the witches tell Macbeth that he cannot be killed by a:
“man that’s of woman born”
thinking about the deed he has committed:
“to know my deed ‘twere best not know myself”
reflection on what his life has become:
“all is but toys”
no longer has his own respect:
“renown and graces are dead”
is appalled to realise that he cannot say:
“amen”
Lady Macbeth fears that her husband does not have the:
“illness that should attend on it”
