Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

Violence, Lady Macbeth, 1:5 –
“U m h”

Answer 1

Unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to toe top-full of direst cruelty

Question 2

Violence, Lady Macbeth, 1:5 –
“C t n”

Answer 2

Come thick night

Question 3

Violence, Macbeth, 2:1 –
“I t a d w I s b m”

Answer 3

Is this a dagger which I see before me

Question 4

Violence, Lady Macbeth, 2:2 –
“M h a o y c, b I s t w a h s w”

Answer 4

My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white

Question 5

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”

Answer 5

I am in blood stepp’d in so far that should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o’er

Question 6

Violence, Macbeth, 3:5 –
“B w h b”

Answer 6

Blood will have blood

Question 7

Ambition, Lady Macbeth, 1:5 –
“H i t f o t m o h k”

Answer 7

He is too full of the milk of human kindness

Question 8

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”

Answer 8

I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition which overleaps itself and falls on the other

Question 9

Ambition, Lady Macbeth, 1:7 –
“B s y c t t s p, a w n f”

Answer 9

But screw your courage to the sticking place, and we’ll not fail

Question 10

Power Control and Evil, Lady Macbeth, 3:2 –
“W’s d i d”

Answer 10

What’s done is done

Question 11

Power Control and Evil, Macduff, 4:3 –
“B, b, p c”

Answer 11

Bleed, bleed, poor country

Question 12

Regret and Humility, Macbeth, 1:7 –
“H s s l w h g b”

Answer 12

His silver skin laced with his golden blood

Question 12

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”

Answer 12

Not in the legions of horrid hell can come a devil more damn’d in evils to top Macbeth

Question 13

Regret and Humility, Macbeth, 2:3 –
“a h g s l l a b i n”

Answer 13

and his gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature

Question 14

Regret and Humility, Lady Macbeth, 5:1 –
“O d s! O I s!”

Answer 14

Out damned spot! Out I say!

Question 15

Regret and Humility, Macbeth, 2:2 –
“S n m! M d m s”

Answer 15

Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep

Question 15

Regret and Humility, Macbeth, 2:2 –
“W a g N’s o w t b c f m h?”

Answer 15

Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?

Question 16

Regret and Humility, Physician, 5:1 –
“M n s t d t t p”

Answer 16

More needs she the divine than the physician

Question 16

Regret and Humility, Lady Macbeth, 5:1 –
“a t p o A w n s t l h”

Answer 16

all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand

Question 17

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”

Answer 17

I would while it was smiling in my face, Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out

Question 17

Gender, Lady Macbeth, 3:4 –
“A y a m?”

Answer 17

Are you a man?

Question 18

Gender, Lady Macbeth, 1:5 –
“a t m m f g”

Answer 18

and take my milk for gall

Question 19

Supernatural, Banquo, 1:3 –
“i o d”

Answer 19

instruments of darkness

Question 20

Supernatural, Macbeth talking about the witches, 3:1 –
“t p a f c a p a b s i m g”

Answer 20

they plac’d a fruitless crown and put a barren sceptre in my gripe

Question 21

Deception, Banquo, 3:1 –
“I f t p m f f’t”

Answer 21

I fear thou played’st most foully for’t

Question 21

Supernatural, Macbeth realising the witches have misled him, 5:5 –
“b t d t’e o t f t l l t”

Answer 21

begin to doubt th’equivocation of the fiend that lies like truth

Question 22

Deception, Lady Macbeth, 1:5 –
“L l t i f b b t s u ‘t”

Answer 22

Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under ‘t

Question 23

Deception, Angus, 5:2 –
“g r u a d t”

Answer 23

giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief

Question 24

Nature, Old Man, 2:4 –
“A f, t i h p o p, W b a m o h’d a a k”

Answer 24

A falcon, towering in her pride of place, Was by a mousing owl hawk’d at and kill’d

Question 25

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”

Answer 25

our country sinks beneath the yoke; it weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds

Question 26

Guilt, Macbeth, 1:7 –
“I d d a t m b a m; W d d m i n”

Answer 26

I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none

Question 27

Guilt, Macbeth, 1:6 –
“s h y f, l n l s m b a d d”

Answer 27

stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires