Macbeth Quotes

Question 0

How does Duncan greet Macbeth when he first sees him?

Answer 0

O’Valiant cousin! Worthy gentlemen!

Question 1

What is the first line of the play?

Answer 1

When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning or in rain?

Question 2

What does Macbeth say when he is referred to as the Thane of Cawdor?

Answer 2

Why do you address me in borrowed robes?

Question 3

What’s Banquos warning to Macbeth about the witches?

Answer 3

The instruments of darkness tell us truths to betray our deepest consequence

Question 4

A quote about Macbeth becoming the Thane of Cawdor

Answer 4

What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won

Question 5

A quote about Macbeth becoming king without trying

Answer 5

Chance may crown me, without my stir

Question 6

What does Duncan promise to do for MacBeth?

Answer 6

I have begun to plant thee and I will labour to make thee full of growing

Question 7

A quote about what Macbeth wants to do to the prince of Cumberland

Answer 7

The prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap

Question 8

What does Macbeth call lady Macbeth in his letter to her?

Answer 8

My dearest partner of greatness

Question 9

What does Lady Macbeth worry, Macbeth is too full of?

Answer 9

I fear thy nature it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness

Question 10

How does Duncan describe his relationship to the Thane of Cawdor?

Answer 10

He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust

Question 11

What does Lady Macbeth ask the spirits to do?

Answer 11

Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts unsex me here

Question 12

A quote about Lady Macbeth taking something caring and poisoning it

Answer 12

Come to my woman’s breast and take my milk for gall

Question 13

A quote lady Macbeth wanting to hide her sin from god

Answer 13

Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark

Question 14

A quote where MacBeth relates his crazy visions to a fever

Answer 14

Heat oppressed brain

Question 15

What does Macbeth call the blood dagger

Answer 15

A false creation

Question 16

How does MacBeth describe his murderous thoughts

Answer 16

Strange things I have in head that come to hand

Question 17

What does Lady Macbeth asks the spirits to do to her?

Answer 17

Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts unsex me here

Question 18

A quote about entering Duncan’s chamber

Answer 18

Approach the chamber and destroy your sight with a new Gorgon

Question 19

What does Lady Macbeth threaten to do to a child?

Answer 19

Pluck my nipple from his boneless guns and bash the brains out

Question 20

What does Macbeth think about what he’s done

Answer 20

I am afraid to think of what I have done look on’t again I dare not

Question 21

What does Ross say when he tells MacDuff about his families death?

Answer 21

Your wife and babe savagely slaughtered

Question 22

A quote about deception

Answer 22

False face must hide what false heart doth know

Question 23

A quote about Macbeth hiding his sins

Answer 23

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

Question 24

A quote from Lady Macbeth about the smell of blood

Answer 24

Here’s the smell of blood still all the perfumes of Arabia could not sweeten it

Question 25

A quote about the witches messy appearance

Answer 25

So withered and so wild in their attire that look not like th’inhabitants o’th’earth