Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
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the witches, A1 S1, [3]
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- ‘when shall we three meet again, In thunder, lightning, or in rain?’
- ‘When the hurley-burly’s done / when the battle’s lost and won / Ere the set of sun / There to meet with Macbeth’
- ‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair / hover through the fog and filthy air’
2
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describing macbeth, act 1 scene 2 [5-6]
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- ‘bellona’s bridegroom’
- ‘as sparrows eagles, or the hare the lion’
- ‘Valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!’
- ‘Cannons overcharged with double cracks … meant to bathe in reeking wounds / or memorise another Golgotha’
- ‘Brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name -/ disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, which smoked with bloody execution, / Like valor’s minion carved out his passage / Till he faced the slave […] Nor bade farewell to him / Till he unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops / and fixed his head upon our battlements’
3
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macbeth and the witches, act 1 scene 3 [2]
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- ‘so foul and fair a day I have not seen’
- ‘stay, you imperfect speakers, tell me more’
4
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macbeth’s dilemma, act 1 scene 3 [2]
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- ‘If good, why do I yield to that suggestion Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, Against the use of nature? Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings. My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical Shakes so my single state of man’
- ‘If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, Without my stir.’
5
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banquo and the witches, act 1 scene 3 [3]
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- ‘you should be women yet your beards for bid me to interpret that you are so’
- ‘So withered and so wild in their attire / that look not like th’ inhabitants of th’ earth and yet are on ‘t? - Live you? Or are you aught that man may question?’
- ‘The earth hath bubbles, and these are of it’
6
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banquo to macbeth, act 1 scene 3 [3]
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- ‘Good sir, why do you start and seem to fear things that do sound so fair … are ye fantastical or that indeed which outwardly ye show…if you can look into the seeds of time…speak…to me, who neither beg nor fear your favours nor your hate’
- ‘The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s In deepest consequence.’
- ‘our strange garments cleave not to their mould’
7
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macbeth is ambitious, act 1 scene 4 [3]
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- ‘The service and the loyalty I owe, In doing it, pays itself. Your highness’ part is to receive our duties, And our duties are, to your throne and state’
- ‘stars, hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires’
- ‘The Prince of Cumberland — that is a step On which I must fall down, or else overleap, For in my way it lies.’
8
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lady macbeth thinks about macbeth, act 1 scene 5 [4]
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- ‘yet do I fear thy nature – It is too full o’th milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.’
- ‘Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it’
- ‘What thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.’
- ‘Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear, And chastise, with the valor of my tongue, All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal.’
9
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lady macbeth calls on spirits, act 1 scene 5 [6]
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- ‘ The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements.’
- ‘Come, you spirits […] unsex me here’
- ‘fill me from the crown to the toe, top-full Of direst cruelty.’
- ‘Make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse, That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose, nor keep peace between The effect and it’
- ‘Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, That my keen knife see not the wound it makes, Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark To cry ‘Hold, hold.’’
- ‘come to my woman’s breasts and take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers’
10
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lady macbeth is ready, act 1 scene 5 [3]
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- ‘bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue. Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t’
- ‘Leave all the rest to me.’
- ‘you shall put This night’s great business into my dispatch’
11
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duncan, act 1 scene 6 [1]
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‘the air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself’
12
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macbeth is scared to kill duncan, act 1 scene 7 [7]
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- ‘If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well It were done quickly.’
- ‘upon this bank and shoal of time, We’d jump the life to come.’
- ‘we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor. This even-handed justice Commends the ingredients of our poisoned chalice To our own lips.’
- ‘He’s here in double trust —First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself.’
- ‘Duncan Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been So clear in his great office, that his virtues Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against The deep damnation of his taking-off […]And pity […] Shall blow the horrid deed in every eye, That tears shall drown the wind.’
- ‘I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself And falls on the other…’
- ‘We will proceed no further in this business.
- ‘I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.’
13
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lady macbeth convinces macbeth, act 1 scene 7 [7]
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- ‘what beast was’t then, that made you break this enterprise to me? when you durst do it, then you were a man’
- ‘Was the hope drunk Wherein you dressed yourself? Hath it slept since And wakes it now to look so green and pale At what it did so freely? From this time, Such I account thy love.’
- ‘live a coward in thine own esteem, Letting ‘I dare not’ wait upon ‘I would,’ Like the poor cat i’ the adage?
- ‘What beast was’t, then, that made you break this enterprise to me? When you durst do it, then you were a man’
- ‘I have given suck, and know How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me. I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out had I so sworn as you have done to this.’
- ‘We fail? But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we’ll not fail.’
- ‘What not put upon His spongy officers, who shall bear the guilt Of our great quell?’
14
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macbeth is, infact, going to kill duncan, act 1 scene 7 [1]
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‘False face must hide what the false heart doth know.’
15
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macbeth gives lady macbeth a lovely compliment, act 1 scene 7 [1]
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‘Bring forth men-children only, For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males.’
16
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banquo, act 2 scene 1 [1]
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‘There’s husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.’
17
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macbeth is high, act 2 scene 1 [7]
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- ‘Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee’
- ‘Thou marshall’st me the way that I was going’
- ‘Mine eyes are made the fools o’ the other senses, Or else, worth all the rest’
- ‘on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood’
- ‘the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell’
- ‘‘Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible To feeling as to sight, or art thou but A dagger of the mind, a false creation, Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?’
- ‘o’er the one half world Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse The curtained sleep; witchcraft celebrates Pale Hecate’s offerings’
18
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macbeth is feeling guilty, act 2 scene 2 [3]
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- ‘‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.’
- ‘One cried ‘God bless us’ and ‘Amen’ the other, As they had seen me with these hangman’s hands. Listening their fear, I could not say ‘Amen’ When they did say ‘God bless us.’’
- ‘But wherefore could not I pronounce ‘Amen’? I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’ Stuck in my throat.’
19
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macbeth can’t sleep, act 2 scene 2 [3]
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- ‘Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor Shall sleep no more. Macbeth shall sleep no more.’
- ‘ I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more;
- ‘Macbeth does murder sleep’ — the innocent sleep, […] The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath, Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, Chief nourisher in life’s feast.’
20
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lady macbeth and the murder, act 2 scene 2 [3]
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- ‘ I laid their daggers ready; He could not miss ‘em. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had done’t.’
- ‘LM: I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry. Did not you speak? M: When? LM: Now. M: As I descended? LM: Ay.’
- ‘M: This is a sorry sight. LM: A foolish thought, to say a sorry sight’
21
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lady macbeth avoids guilt, simultaneously slagging off macbeeth, act 2 scene 2 [8]
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- ‘Consider it not so deeply’
- ‘These deeds must not be thought After these ways so, it will make us mad.’
- ‘worthy thane, You do unbend your noble strength, to think So brain-sickly of things’
- ‘Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand.’
- ‘tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil.’
- ‘My hands are of your color, but I shame To wear a heart so white.’
- ‘A little water clears us of this deed’
- ‘‘Go get some water, And wash this filthy witness from your hand.’
22
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the porter, act 2 scene 3 [1]
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‘here’s an equivocator that could swear in both of the scales against either scale’
23
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ross, act 2 scene 4 [2]
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- ‘Thou seest the heavens, as troubled with man’s act, Threatens his bloody stage.’
- ‘By th’ clock ’tis day,And yet dark night strangles the travelling lamp.’
