Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
What quote links Macbeth to the witches?
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen” links to “Fair is foul and foul is fair”
What quote by the witches hints at Macbeths future royalty?
“A drum, a drum
Macbeth doth come”
This reflects the fanfare of being king as it is like a royal welcome
What shows that Macbeth is well respected?
“For brave Macbeth-well he deserves that name”
“Go pronounce his present death
And with his former title greet Macbeth”
“What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won”
“Let me unfold thee an hold thee to my heart”
“He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust”
What quotes show that Macbeth doesn’t fear the witches?
“Speak, I charge you”
“How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!”
“Answer me”(x2)
What quote hints that Macbeth may be thinking of securing his place as king?
“[Aside] The Prince of Cumberland! that is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires;
Let not light see my black and deep desires:
The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be,
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.”
What quotes show why Macbeth didn’t want to kill Duncan?
“He’s here in double trust;
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself.”
“Commends the ingredients of our poison’d chalice
To our own lips.”
“I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls on the other.”
What quote shows that Macbeth has been once again persuaded to assassinate Duncan?
“False face must hide what the false heart doth know”
What are the important parts in Macbeth’s soliloquy before he kills Duncan?
“Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?”
“Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible
To feeling as to sight? or art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”
“Nature seems dead, and wicked dreams abuse
The curtain’d sleep; witchcraft celebrates
Pale Hecate’s offerings, and wither’d murder,”
“Whiles I threat, he lives:
Words to the heat of deeds too cold breath gives.”
“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 to hell.”
What does Macbeth say after the murder of Duncan that’s related to sleep?
“Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep’, the innocent sleep,
Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleeve of care,
The death of each day’s life, sore labour’s bath,
Balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course,
Chief nourisher in life’s feast,”
“‘Sleep no more!’ to all the house:
‘Glamis hath murder’d sleep, and therefore Cawdor
Shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more.’”
What are the important parts in Macbeth’s second soliloquy?
“To be thus is nothing;
But to be safely thus.”
“And, to that dauntless temper of his mind,
He hath a wisdom that doth guide his valour”
“Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown,
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe,”
“mine eternal jewel”
Which quotes show that Macbeth is adopting Lady Macbeth’s deceiving nature?
“And make or faces vizards to our hearts,
Disguising what they are”
What quote shows Macbeth’s insanity?
“Thou canst not say I did it; never shake
Thy gory locks at me!”
What quotes show that Macbeth has realised the extent of his actions?
“It will have blood they say: blood will have blood”
“I am in blood
Stepp’d in so far that I should wade no more”
What quote by the witches show that Macbeth’s hopes are raised above his wisdom?
"Shall draw him on to his confusion: He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear He hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy"
What quote by the witches show that Macbeth has been dehumanised?
“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes”
