Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

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

Answer 1

Macbeth

Question 2

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

Answer 2

Macbeth

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Duncan

Question 4

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

Answer 4

Macbeth

Question 5

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

Answer 5

Lady Macbeth

Question 6

“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. “

Answer 6

Lady Macbeth

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Duncan

Question 8

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

Answer 8

Lady Macbeth

Question 9

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

Answer 9

Macbeth

Question 10

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

Answer 10

Macbeth

Question 11

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

Answer 11

Macbeth

Question 12

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

Answer 12

Lady Macbeth

Question 13

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

Answer 13

Macbeth

Question 14

“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. “

Answer 14

Macduff

Question 15

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

Answer 15

Donalbain

Question 16

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

Answer 16

Lady Macbeth

Question 17

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

Answer 17

Macbeth

Question 18

“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. “

Answer 18

Macbeth

Question 19

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

Answer 19

Macbeth

Question 20

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

Answer 20

Banquo

Question 21

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

Answer 21

Lady Macbeth

Question 22

“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.“

Answer 22

Macbeth

Question 23

“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.“

Answer 23

Lady Macbeth

Question 24

“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. “

Answer 24

Macbeth

Question 25

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

Answer 25

Banquo

Question 26

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

Answer 26

Macbeth

Question 27

"Most royal, sir. Fleance escaped “

Answer 27

Murderer

Question 28

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

Answer 28

Malcolm

Question 29

"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. “

Answer 29

Ross

Question 30

"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. “

Answer 30

Lady Macduff

Question 31

"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. “

Answer 31

Malcolm

Question 32

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

Answer 32

Macbeth

Question 33

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

Answer 33

Second Witch

Question 34

"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…“

Answer 34

Malcolm

Question 35

"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… “

Answer 35

Macbeth

Question 36

"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. “

Answer 36

Macduff

Question 37

"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. “

Answer 37

Lady Macbeth

Question 38

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

Answer 38

Lady Macbeth

Question 39

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

Answer 39

Lady Maceth

Question 40

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

Answer 40

Macbeth

Question 41

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

Answer 41

Macbeth

Question 42

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

Answer 42

Macbeth

Question 43

"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;”

Answer 43

Malcolm

Question 44

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

Answer 44

Macduff

Question 45

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

Answer 45

Macbeth

Question 46

"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.”

Answer 46

Hecate

Question 47

"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.“

Answer 47

Macbeth

Question 48

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

Answer 48

Macbeth

Question 49

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

Answer 49

Lady Macbeth

Question 50

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

Answer 50

Macbeth

Question 51

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

Answer 51

Macbeth