Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
Violence, Lady Macbeth, 1:5 –
“U m h”
Unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to toe top-full of direst cruelty
Violence, Lady Macbeth, 1:5 –
“C t n”
Come thick night
Violence, Macbeth, 2:1 –
“I t a d w I s b m”
Is this a dagger which I see before me
Violence, Lady Macbeth, 2:2 –
“M h a o y c, b I s t w a h s w”
My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white
Violence, Macbeth, 3:5 –
“I a i b s i s f t s I w n m, R w a t a g o”
I am in blood stepp’d in so far that should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er
Violence, Macbeth, 3:5 –
“B w h b”
Blood will have blood
Ambition, Lady Macbeth, 1:5 –
“H i t f o t m o h k”
He is too full of the milk of human kindness
Ambition, Macbeth, 1:7 –
“I h n s t p t s o m i b o v a w o i a f o t o”
I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which overleaps itself and falls on the other
Ambition, Lady Macbeth, 1:7 –
“B s y c t t s p, a w n f”
But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we’ll not fail
Power Control and Evil, Lady Macbeth, 3:2 –
“W’s d i d”
What’s done is done
Power Control and Evil, Macduff, 4:3 –
“B, b, p c”
Bleed, bleed, poor country
Regret and Humility, Macbeth, 1:7 –
“H s s l w h g b”
His silver skin laced with his golden blood
Power Control and Evil, Macduff, 4:3 –
“N i t l o h h c c a d m d i e t t M”
Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damn’d in evils to top Macbeth
Regret and Humility, Macbeth, 2:3 –
“a h g s l l a b i n”
and his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature
Regret and Humility, Lady Macbeth, 5:1 –
“O d s! O I s!”
Out damned spot! Out I say!
Regret and Humility, Macbeth, 2:2 –
“S n m! M d m s”
Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep
Regret and Humility, Macbeth, 2:2 –
“W a g N’s o w t b c f m h?”
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?
Regret and Humility, Physician, 5:1 –
“M n s t d t t p”
More needs she the divine than the physician
Regret and Humility, Lady Macbeth, 5:1 –
“a t p o A w n s t l h”
all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand
Gender, Lady Macbeth, 1:7 –
“I w w i w s i m f, H p m n f h b g a d t b o”
I would while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out
Gender, Lady Macbeth, 3:4 –
“A y a m?”
Are you a man?
Gender, Lady Macbeth, 1:5 –
“a t m m f g”
and take my milk for gall
Supernatural, Banquo, 1:3 –
“i o d”
instruments of darkness
Supernatural, Macbeth talking about the witches, 3:1 –
“t p a f c a p a b s i m g”
they plac’d a fruitless crown and put a barren sceptre in my gripe
Deception, Banquo, 3:1 –
“I f t p m f f’t”
I fear thou played’st most foully for’t
Supernatural, Macbeth realising the witches have misled him, 5:5 –
“b t d t’e o t f t l l t”
begin to doubt th’equivocation of the fiend that lies like truth
Deception, Lady Macbeth, 1:5 –
“L l t i f b b t s u ‘t”
Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under ‘t
Deception, Angus, 5:2 –
“g r u a d t”
giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief
Nature, Old Man, 2:4 –
“A f, t i h p o p, W b a m o h’d a a k”
A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d
Nature, Macduff, 4:3 –
“o c s b t y; i w, i b, a e n d a g i a t h w”
our country sinks beneath the yoke; it weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds
Guilt, Macbeth, 1:7 –
“I d d a t m b a m; W d d m i n”
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none
Guilt, Macbeth, 1:6 –
“s h y f, l n l s m b a d d”
stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires
