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”
macbeth as a brutal soldier on the battlefield:
“unseamed him from the naive to the chops”
Macbeth’s sword was:
“smoked with bloody execution”
Lady Macbeth says she would have killed Duncan if he didn’t look like her father:
“had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t”
Lady Macbeth’s manipulation if Macbeth:
“dash’d the brains out had I sworn to do so”
Macbeth’s deep admiration for his wife:
“bring forth men children only”
Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth not to worry about the murder:
“consider it not so deeply”
Macbeth tells his wife to :
“be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck”
Lady Macbeth’s sleep walking:
“out damned spot” “all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand”
dagger halluscination:
“is this a dagger I see before me”
the witches are:
“instruments of darkness”
in a world where:
“fair is foul and foul is fair”
the witches tell Macbeth that he will be:
“king hereafter”
reflection on what his life has become after his evil deeds:
“life’s but a walking shadow”
“brief candle”
macbeth’s mind is:
“full of scorpions”
Macbeth says he has no reason to kill Duncan:
“I have no spur to prick the side of my intent”
Macbeth says he will fight on despite his realisation about the prophecy:
“I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked”
the witches tell Macbeth until: he will be safe
“Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him”
hates the thought of Banquo’s descendants being king:
“thy crown does sear mine eyeballs”
speaking to the dagger:
“thou marshall’st me the way that I was going”
a falcon is killed by an owl (unnatural)
“a falcon towering in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawked and killed”
