macbeth quotes Flashcards
what are the four quotes from act one scene one? (witches)
- ‘[thunder and lightning]’
- ‘upon the heath’
- ‘there to meet with Macbeth’
- ‘Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air’
what are the four quotes from act one scene two? (praising macb, giving him title)
- ‘Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel which smok’d with bloody execution’
- ‘Till he unseam’d him from the nave to th’ chaps, and fixed his head upon our battlements’
- ‘with his former title greet Macbeth.’
‘what he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won’
what are the prophecies from act one scene three?
‘all hail, macbeth! Hail to thee. Thane of Glamis!’
‘all hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee. Thane of Cawdor!’
‘All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!’
‘Lesser than Macbeth, and greater’
‘not so happy, yet much happier’
‘thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.’
what are the 4 quotes said by banquo from act one scene three?
‘you should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so’
‘were such things here as we do speak about?’
‘can the devil speak true?’
‘oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s In deepest consequence.’
what are the 6 quotes by macb from act one scene three?
‘so fair and foul a day i have not seen’
‘do you not hope your children shall be kings?’
‘the greatest is behind’
‘happy prologues to the swelling act’
‘cannot be ill, cannot be good’
‘if chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir’
what is the stage direction for the witches in act one scene three?
‘[witches vanish]’
what are the 4 quotes from act one scene four? (talking to duncan, macb thinking ab murder)
‘the loyalty I owe, in doing it, pays for itself’
‘my worthy cawdor’
‘stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires’
‘the eye winks at the hand’
what are the 9 quotes from act one scene five? (letter to lady macb)
‘my dearest partner of greatness’
‘yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness’
‘I may pour my spirits in thine ear’
‘the raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements’
‘come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here’
‘direst cruelty’
‘come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall’
‘your face, my thane, is as a book’
‘look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’
what are the six quotes from act one scene seven? (macb contemplating + lady macb manipulating)
‘if it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well if it were done quickly’
‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent’
‘vaulting ambition, which o’er leaps itself’
‘we will proceed no further in this business’
‘I would, while it was smiling in my face, have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, and dash’d his brains out, had I so sworn as you have done to this’
‘false face must hide what the false heart doth know’
what are the 3 quotes from the start of act two scene one? (macb and banquo)
‘a heavy summons lies like lead upon me, and yet I would not sleep’
‘a friend’
‘I think not of them’
what are the 9 quotes about the dagger hallucination + duncan’s murder?
‘is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle towards me? come let me clutch thee’
‘a dagger of the mind, a false creation’
‘thou marshall’st me the way that I was going’
‘and on thy blade and dudgeon gouts of blood’
‘bloody business’
‘nature seems dead’
‘[a bell rings]’
‘I go and it is done; the bell invites me.’
‘hear it not, duncan, for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or hell.’
what are the 14 quotes from act two scene two? (macb + lady macb after murder)
‘it was the owl that shriek’d, the fatal bellman’
‘had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t’
‘I heard the owl scream and the crickets cry’
‘hangman’s hands’
‘I could not say ‘Amen’’
‘it will make us mad’
‘sleep no more’
‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep; and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more - macbeth shall sleep no more’
‘go get some water’
‘I am afraid to think what I have done’
‘the sleeping and the dead are but pictures’
‘will all great Neptune’s oceans wash this blood clean from my hand?’
‘my hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white’
‘a little water clears us of this deed’
what are the 5 quotes from act two scene three? (discovering duncan is dead)
‘lamentings heard I’ th’ air, strange screams of death,’
‘the earth was feverous and did shake’
‘most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope’
‘the spring, the head, the fountain of your blood is stopp’d; the very source of it is stopp’d’
‘there’s daggers in men’s smiles’
what are the quote from act two scene four? (talking ab scotland)
‘dark night strangles the travelling lamp’
what are the four quotes from act three scene one? (Banquo thinking to himself, macb being jealous, macb being manipulative)
‘thou play’dst most foully for’t’
‘but hush, no more’
‘they hailed him father to a line of kings. Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown’
‘know Banquo was your enemy’
what are the four quotes from act three scene two? (lady macb, thinking ab banquo’s murder)
‘what’s done is done’
‘we have scotch’d the snake, not kill’d it;’
‘full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!’
‘be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck’
what are the two quotes from act three scene three? (banquo’s murder scene)
‘it will be rain to-night’
‘who did strike out the light?’
what are the 3 quotes with macb + banquo’s murderers from act three scene four?
‘there’s blood upon thy face’
‘‘tis better thee without that he within’
‘safe in a ditch’
what are the 9 quotes ab the ghost from act three scene four?
‘[enter the ghost of Banquo and sits in Macbeth’s place]’
‘the table’s full’
‘which of you have done this?’
‘thou canst not say I did it; never shake thy gory locks at me’
‘his highness is not well’
‘this is the very painting of your fear’
‘imposters to true fear’
‘approach thou like the rugged russian bear, the arm’d rhinoceros, or th’ Hycran tiger
‘I am in blood stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er’
what is the quote from act three scene five? (hecate + witches talking)
‘and you all know security is mortals chiefest enemy’
what is the quote from act three scene six? (talking ab scotland)
‘we may again give to our tables meat, sleep to our nights, free from our feasts and banquets bloody knives’
what are the 9 quotes from act four scene one with apparitions?
‘secret black and midnight hags’
‘[thunder. first apparition, an armed head]’
‘beware macduff’
‘but one word more-‘
‘[thunder. second apparition, a bloody child]’
‘none of woman born shall harm macbeth’
‘[thunder. third appartion, a child crowned, with a tree in his hand]’
‘Macbeth shall never vanquish’d be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him’
‘yet my heart throbs to know one thing’
what are the two quotes about macb’s impulsiveness from act four scene one?
‘the very firstlings of my heart shall be the very firstlings of my hand’
‘be it thought and done’
what are the three quotes from act five scene one? (lady macb going crazy)
- ‘out, damnned spot! out, I say’
- ‘will these hands ne’er be clean’
‘all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand’
- ‘will these hands ne’er be clean’
