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Macbeth Quotes Flashcards

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fate: macbeth - 4.1 - thumbs, comes

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

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fate: banquo - 1.3 - instruments

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the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequences

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fate: macduff - 5.7 - tyrant

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tyrant, show your face… let me find him, fortune!

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fate: witch 3 - 1.3 - hail

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“All hail, Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter!”

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fate: Lady Macbeth - 1.5 - promised

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“what thou art promised”

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fate: hecate - 3.5 - wisdom

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“He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes ‘bove wisdom, grace and fear;”

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fate: Macbeth - 1.3 - chance

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“If chance will have me king, why, Chance may crown me, without my stir”

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fate: banquo - 3.1 - foully

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“Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promised, and i fear Thou play’dst most foully for it:”

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fate: Macbeth - 3.1 - champion

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“rather than so, come fate into the list, And champion me to the utterance! Who’s there?”

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fate: hecate - 3.5 - destiny

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“Meet me I ‘the morning : thither he Will come to know his destiny.”

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guilt: lady macbeth - 2.2 - confounds

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“The attempt and not the deed confounds us.”

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guilt: Lady Macbeth - 5.1 - damned spot

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“Out damned spot; out I say… Here’s the smell of the blood still”

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guilt: Lady Macbeth - 2.2 - Neptune’s

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

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guilt: Macbeth - 2.4 - bell

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“The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.”

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guilt: Macbeth - 2.2 - murder sleep

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“Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep’”

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guilt: macbeth - 3.4 - blood

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“blood must have blood.”

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guilt: doctor - 5.1 - unatural

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“Unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles”

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guilt: macbeth - 2.2 - afraid

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“im afraid to think what I have done;”

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guilt: lady macbeth - 2.2 - clears

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“a little water clears us from this deed”

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guilt: macbeth - 3.4 - marrowless

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“Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold Thou hast no speculation in those eyes”

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guilt: lady macbeth - 5.1 - knocking

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“to bed to bed there’s knocking at the gate, come, come, come give me your hand what’s done cannot be undone

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guilt: macbeth - 5.5 - candle

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“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”

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guilt: macbeth - 5.5 - estate

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“Wish the entire estate o’ the world were now undone”

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guilt: macbeth - 5.5 - tomorrow

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“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow”

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guilt: macbeth - 1.7 - proceed

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“We shall proceed no further in this business”

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ambition: macbeth - 1.4 - desires

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“Stars, hide your fires; / let not light see my black and deep desires”

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ambition: lady macbeth - 2.2 - drunk

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“That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold, what hath quenched them hath given me fire.”

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ambition: lady macbeth - 1.5 - flower

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“Look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t.”

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ambition: macbeth - 1.7 - spur

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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 th’other”

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ambition: macbeth - 3.2 - great bond

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“And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond…”

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ambition: macduff - 4.3 - bleed

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“Bleed, bleed, poor country. “Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure”

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ambition: macduff - 5.7 - fortune

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“Tyrant, show your face…let me find him, Fortune!”

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ambition: macduff - 5.8 - charm

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“Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served”

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ambition: macbeth - 3.1 - safely thus

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“To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus”

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ambition: lady macbeth - 1.5 - direst

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“fill me / direst cruelty”

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ambition: lady macbeth - 5.5 - taste

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“almost forgot the taste of fear”

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ambition: lady macbeth - 1.5 - illness

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“Thou wouldst be great Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it”

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ambition: macbeth - 1.4 - Cumberland

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“The prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, for in my way it lies”

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ambition: malcolm - 5.11 - butcher

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“This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen”

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ambition: macbeth - 2.1 - heaven

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“I go, and it is done; the bell invites me … that summons thee to heaven or to hell”

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ambition: macbeth - 5.8 - kiss

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“I will not yield, to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet.”

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gender: donalbain - 2.3 - smiles

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“There are daggers in men’s smiles”

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gender: lady macbeth - 1.7 - durst

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“When you durst do it, then you were a man”

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gender: Lady Macbeth - 1.5 - spirits

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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. Make thick my blood.”

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gender: macduff - 2.3 - gentle

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“O gentle lady, ‘Tis not for you to hear what I can speak. The repetition in a woman’s ear Would murder as it fell.”

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gender: macduff - 4.3 - dispute

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“Dispute it like a man”. “I shall do so, / But I must also feel it as a man”

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gender: ross - 5.8 - like a man

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“But like a man he died”

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gender: lady macbeth - 1.5 - gall

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“come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall’”

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gender: macbeth - 1.7 - dare

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“I dare do all that may become a man, who dares do more is none”

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gender: Malcolm - 4.3 - dispute it

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“dispute it like a man”

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gender: lady macbeth - 1.5 - milk

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“Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o’th’ milk of human kindness”

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supernatural: witches - 1.1 - fair

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“Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Hover through the fog and filthy air.”

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supernatural: macbeth - 4.1 - hags

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“How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!”

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supernatural: macbeth - 2.1 - false creation

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“Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”

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supernatural: banquo - 1.3 - trifles

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“the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequence”

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supernatural: macbeth - 1.7 - doth know

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“false face must hide what the false heart doth know”

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supernatural: macbeth - 3.4 - host

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“…and play the humble host”

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supernatural: macbeth - 2.1 - dagger

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“is this a dagger which I see before me?”

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supernatural: macduff - 2.3 - woman’s ear

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“Tis not for you to hear what I can speak. The repetition in a woman’s ear would murder as it fell.”

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supernatural: malcolm - 4.3 - angels

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“Angels are bright still, but the brightest fell.”

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supernatural: malcolm - 4.3 - brows

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“All things foul would wear the brows of grace, yet grace must still look so.”

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