Macbeth Quotes Flashcards

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All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, that shalt be king hereafter.

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Lesser than MacBeth, and greater.’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier.’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.’ (Witches)

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‘If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me Without my stir’ (MacBeth)

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(Aside) ‘The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap’ (Macbeth)

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Stars, hide your fires,
Let light not see my black and deep desires’

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‘yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way’ (Lady Macbeth)

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‘thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it’ (Lady Macbeth)

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I may pour my spirits in thine ear; and chastise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round“ (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!’ (Lady Macbeth)

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‘I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself And falls on the other.’ (Macbeth)

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