Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

“Stay you imperfect speakers, tell me more..”

Answer 1

Macbeth talking to the witches after they tell him the prophecy. The beginning of his need to hear the future.

Question 2

“Were such things here as we do speak about? Or have we eaten on the insane root/ That takes the reason prisoner”

Answer 2

Banquo to Macbeth after they hear the prophecy. Wondering if they have become trapped in the witches spell.

Question 3

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

Answer 3

Macbeth talking to Banquo saying that he doesn’t have a problem with becoming king

Question 4

“Theres no art/ To find the minds construction in the face…”

Answer 4

Duncan to Malcom. Bringing up the idea of people are not what they seem. Thane of Cawdor betrayed him

Question 5

“Sons, kingsmen, thanes,/ And you whose places are the nearest, know/ We will establish our state upon/ Our eldest Malcom”

Answer 5

Duncan announcing to everyone that Malcom will be crowned Prince of Cumberland. This causes distress and envy in Macbeth

Question 6

“The Prince of Cumberland- that is a step/ On which I must fall down or else ‘oerleap..”

Answer 6

Macbeth talking to himself because he is jealous that he is not Prince of Cumberland

Question 7

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

Answer 7

Lady macbeth talking to herself because she is afraid that her husband will be too cowardice to fulfill his needs.

Question 8

“Come you spirits that tend to mortal thoughts, unsex me here..”

Answer 8

Lady Macbeth saying that she wants to be stripped of her feminism and seen as an equal to men

Question 9

“To beguile the time,/ Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,/ Your hand, your tongue; look like th’ innocent flower,/ Be the serpent under’t”

Answer 9

Lady Macbeth talking to macbeth about Duncan’s arrival and how they need to appear innocent even though theyre going to kill him

Question 10

“If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘were well/ It were done quickly..he’s here in double trust:/ First, as I am his kinsman and his subject..”

Answer 10

Macbeth talking to the audience about how he doesn’t feel right about killing him.

Question 11

“We will proceed no further in this business..”

Answer 11

Macbeth feels uneasy about killing Duncan but Lady Macbeth persuades him.

Question 12

“Thou hast it now- King, Cawdor, Glamis, all,/ As the weird women promised; and I fear/ Thou plaid’s most foully for’t”

Answer 12

Banquo suspects that Macbeth has played foully for his position as king

Question 13

“To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus./ Our fears in Banquo stick deep..”

Answer 13

Macbeth telling lady Macbeth that Banquo is a threat since he has suspicions.

Question 14

“I will advise you where to plant yourselves, / Acquaint you with the perfect spy o’ th’ tine..”

Answer 14

Macbeth telling the murderers his plans and instructions for killing Banquo and his son

Question 15

‘We have scorched the snake, not killed it..”

Answer 15

Macbeth telling lady macbeth that they haven’t accomplished anything yet.

Question 16

“O, full of scorpions in my mind..”

Answer 16

Macbeth saying to lady macbeth that he is stressed about Banquo. He is having paranoia

Question 17

“Thou art the best o’ th’ cutthroats./ Yet he’s good that did the like for Felance..”

Answer 17

Macbeth telling the murderers that they did a good job because he doesn’t know that Fleance got away

Question 18

“Then comes my fit again. I had else been perfect;/ Whole as the marble, founded as the rock..”

Answer 18

Macbeth talking to the murders about how Fleance escaped. The perfect plan has been ruined

Question 19

“The time has been/ that when the brains were out, the man would die..”

Answer 19

Macbeth telling Lady Macbeth that he is scared the dead are coming back to life

Question 20

“I am in blood/ Stepped in so far..”

Answer 20

Macbeth saying to lady macbeth that there is no turning back. He is in too deep

Question 21

“By the pricking my thumbs,/ something wicked this way comes.”

Answer 21

Hecate is having a ceremony with the other witches. Makes audience wonder about whats to come

Question 22

“Macbeth…beware Macduff,/ Beware the Thane of Fife.”

Answer 22

Macbeth seeing the witches prophecy’s in his mind. Hallucinating on potions

Question 23

“Be bloody, bold, and resolute. Laugh to scorn/ The pow’r of man, for none of woman born/ shall harm Macbeth”

Answer 23

Little Boy saying to macbeth that no one can harm him he is invisible

Question 24

“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until/ Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill”

Answer 24

Saying that he can’t be harmed until the forest grows. Gives him security

Question 25

“Let every soldier new him down a bough/ And bear’t before him. Thereby shall we shadow/”

Answer 25

Macbeth’s guards saying that the trees are growing and everyone is coming

Question 26

“Tomorrow and tomorrow,/ creeps in this petty pace from day to day/ To yesterdays have lighted fools/..”

Answer 26

Macbeth heard of his wife death and doesn’t think that life has a meaning at this point

Question 27

“The wood began to move..I say, a moving grove.”

Answer 27

Watchmen warning Macbeth that the trees are moving. He is now unsafe

Question 28

“Fear not, till Birnam Wood/ Do come to Dunsinane, and how a wood/ comes toward Dunsinane.”

Answer 28

Macbeth saying that the prophecy was correct and he is now reaching his fate to die