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Macbeth Quotes Flashcards

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“We will proceed no further in this business. He hath honored me of late.”

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Macbeth

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“Who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself.”

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Macbeth

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“This castle hath a pleasant seat. The air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself into our gentle senses.”

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Duncan

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“if chance will have me king, why, change me crown without my stir.”

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Macbeth

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“Make thick my blood. Stop up th’ access, and passage to remorse, that no compunctious visiting of nature shake my cell purpose. “

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Lady Macbeth

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“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. “

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Lady Macbeth

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“there’s no art to find the minds construction in the face. He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust. “

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Duncan

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“it is too full i’ th’ milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way. “

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Lady Macbeth

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“so foul and fair a day I have not seen. “

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Macbeth

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“Whiles, I threat, he lives. Words to the heat of deeds to cold breath gives. “

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Macbeth

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“But therefore, could I not pronounce ’Amen’? I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’ stuck in my throat. “

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Macbeth

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“Why did you bring these daggers from the place? They must of lie there. Go carry them in smear, the sleepy, grooms with blood.“

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Lady Macbeth

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“to know my deed ‘tweet best not know myself. Wake Duncan with thy knocking. I would thou couldst “

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Macbeth

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“O gentle lady. ‘Tis not for you to hear what I can speak. The repetition of a woman’s ear would murder as it fell. “

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Macduff

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“to Ireland I. Our separated fortune shall keep us both the safer. where we are there’s daggers in men smile.”

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Donalbain

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“These deeds must not be thought. After these days, so it will make us mad. “

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Lady Macbeth

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“Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.”

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Macbeth

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“Will all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red. “

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Macbeth

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“The innocent of the knowledge, dearest Chuck. Till thou applaud the deed.“

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Macbeth

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“O treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly fly! Thou mquest revenge —- O slave! “

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Banquo

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“Things without all remedy should be without regard. What’s done is done. “

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Lady Macbeth

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“And so of men. Now, if you have a station in the file, not I’ th’ worst rink of manhood, say’t, and I will put that business in your bosoms, whose execution takes your enemy off.“

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Macbeth

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“Naught’s had, all’s spent, where our desire is got without content. ‘Tis safer to be that which we destroy, than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy.“

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Lady Macbeth

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“Then comes my fit again. I had else been perfect… But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, found in a saucy, doubts and fears—but Banquo’s safe. “

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Macbeth

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“Thou hast it now-– king, cawdor, glamis, all, as the weird woman promised, and I hear thou played most foully for it. “

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Banquo

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“it is concluded. Banquo, thy souls flight if it find heaven, must find it out tonight “

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Macbeth

27
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“Most royal, sir. Fleance escaped “

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Murderer

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“Let grief convert to anger. Blunt not the heart; and rage it. “

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Malcolm

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“Alas, poor country! Almost afraid to know, it’s self. It cannot be called our mother, but our grace, we’re nothing, but who knows nothing, is one seem to smile; wears size and groans and shrieks that rent the air are made, not marked. “

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Ross

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“Wisdom? To live his wife, leave his babies, his mansion, and his titles in a place from whence himself does fly? He loves us not. “

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Lady Macduff

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“This tyrant, who’s soul name blisters Our tongues, was once thought, honest. You have loved him well. He hath not touched you yet. I am young, but something you may deserve of him through me, and wisdom to offer up a week, poor, innocent, lamb T’ appease, an angry god. “

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Malcolm

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“That will never be. Who can impress the forest, bid the tree unfix his earthbound root? “

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Macbeth

33
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“by the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes. “

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Second Witch

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“it is myself, I mean, in whom I know all the particulars of vice, so grafted that, when they shall be opened, black, Macbeth will seem as pure as snow…“

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Malcolm

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“Then, live, McDuff; what need I fear of thee? But yet I’ll make assurance double sure and take a bond of fate. Thou shalt not live… “

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Macbeth

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“But I must also feel it as a man. I cannot, but remember such things were that were so precious to me. Did heaven look on and would not take their part?… They were all struck for thee! Naught that I am, not for their own demerit, but for mine, fell slaughter on their souls. “

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Macduff

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“Out, damned spot! Out, I say!-One, two. Why, then,’tis time to do’t. Hell is murky?-Fie, my Lord, fie! Hey soldier, and afeared? What need we fear Who knows it, when none can call our power into account?-yet who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him. “

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Lady Macbeth

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“The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?-What, will these hands ne’er be clean?”

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Lady Macbeth

39
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“Here’s the smell of the blood still. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”

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Lady Maceth

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“I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked. Give me my armor.”

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Macbeth

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“Bring it after me. I will not be afraid of death and bane, Till Birnam Forest come to Dunsinane.”

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Macbeth

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“Why should I play the Roman fool and die on mine own sword? Whiles I see lives, the gashes. Do better upon them.”

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Macbeth

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“Producing forth the cruel ministers/ Of his dead butcher and his fiend like queen/ Who, as ‘Tis thought, by self and violent hands/took off her life;”

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Malcolm

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“Despair thy charm, and let the angel whom thou still hast served, tell the, Macduff was from his mother’s womb, ultimately ripped.”

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Macduff

45
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“Whiles I threat, he lives. Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.”

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Macbeth

46
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“And which is worse, all you have done, hath been but for a wayward son, spiteful and wrathful, who, as others do, loves for his own ends, not for you.”

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Hecate

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“Tis much he dared, and to that dauntless temper of his mind he hath a wisdom that doth guide his valor to act in safety. There is nothing but he whose being I do fear; and under him my genius is rebuked.“

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Macbeth

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“The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down or else o’erleap!”

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Macbeth

49
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“We fail? But screw you courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail!”

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Lady Macbeth

50
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“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more.”

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Macbeth

51
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“There the grown serpent lies. The worm that’s fled Hath nature that in time will venom breed.”

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Macbeth

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