Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

Banquo warns Macbeth early on about the witches

Answer 1

“Be warned…The instruments of darkness tell us truths; win us with honest trifles, only to betray us in deepest consequence”

Question 2

Macbeth starts regretting his previous actions

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Lady Macbeth proves to the spirits she’s manly enough to not be a woman

Answer 3

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

Question 4

Lady Macbeth thinking that the dark night’s can hide her actions

Answer 4

“Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell”

Question 5

Lady Macbeth claims if you act innocent when you plead guilty you will get away with your actions.

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Macbeth thinks that he is seeing a dagger as his destiny

Answer 6

“Is this a dagger which I see before me? I have thee not yet I see thee still.”

Question 7

First apparition, possible threat of Macduff

Answer 7

“Beware Macduff!”

Question 8

Second apparition, comforting Macbeth as every man is born of a woman

Answer 8

“None of woman born shall harm Macbeth”

Question 9

Third apparition, suggests that Macbeth is safe until the forest outside his castle moves on him.

Answer 9

“Macbeth shall never be vanquished until Great Birnham wood to high Dunsinane Hill comes against him”

Question 10

Macbeth showing he is arrogant and demanding as proof he has changed.

Answer 10

“Secret, black, and midnight hags!”

Question 11

Lady Macbeth seeking power from spirits because she see’s Macbeth as too weak.

Answer 11

“Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.”

Question 12

Macduff says this when he discovers Duncan has been murdered and compares Duncan’s body to the Lord’s temple, emphasizing the King’s godliness

Answer 12

“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The Lord’s anointed temple, and stole thence the life o’ th’ building!”

Question 13

Banquo is suspicious of Macbeth and aware of his actions however Macbeth pretends he doesn’t know of it.

Answer 13

“Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promised, and I fear Thou played’st most foully for ‘t.”

Question 14

Wounded Captain tells Duncan how Macbeth should have died on the battlefield.

Answer 14

“For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name -

Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel”.

Question 15

The King admires his cousin and his battle skills

Answer 15

“O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman!”

Question 16

The King has made Macbeth Thane of Cawdor.

Answer 16

“What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won”.

Question 17

Macbeth says he has not seen a day so good however so evil

Answer 17

“So foul and fair a day I have not seen”

Question 18

Witches suggesting how everything is not as it seems and all that seems good is actually bad.

Answer 18

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”

Question 19

Lady Macbeth reassuring Macbeth that everything will work out if he fixes his courage firmly in place.

Answer 19

“But screw your courage to the sticking-place,

And we’ll not fail.”

Question 20

Macbeth tells himself that he must put on a false pleasant face to hide his false, evil heart.

Answer 20

“False face must hide what false heart doth know.”

Question 21

Lady Macbeth would’ve killed Duncan herself but as he was sleeping he looked like her father.

Answer 21

“Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t.”

Question 22

Macbeth wonders if all of the water in the ocean could wash the blood off his hands.

Answer 22

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

Question 23

Lady Macbeth tells Macbeth that washing there hands with water will clear all of the evidence that they killed Duncan

Answer 23

“A little water clears us of this deed.”

Question 24

Macbeth cannot ask for anything given his sin

Answer 24

“I could not say ‘Amen’”

Question 25

Macbeth thinks he heard a voice claiming he shall no longer rest

Answer 25

“Macbeth shall sleep no more”

Question 26

Duncan tells Ross that the Thane of Cawdor will die, Macbeth will replace him

Answer 26

“what he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.”

Question 27

Banquo wont be king but he will be happier than Macbeth and Banquo’s kids will be king and his line will carry on.

Answer 27

“lesser than Macbeth and greater. not so happy, yet much happier. thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.”

Question 28

Macbeth let’s chance help him through his trouble.

Answer 28

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

Question 29

Lady Macbeth tell’s herself that Duncan will die.

Answer 29

“The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan under my battlements.”

Question 30

Lady Macbeth claims to Macbeth she is not afraid of death.

Answer 30

“my hands are of your color, but i shame to wear a heart so white. “

Question 31

Macbeth tells Lady Macbeth that those that were killed will want revenge

Answer 31

“It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood.”

Question 32

Lady Macduff tell’s Ross that when you are scared you can often trait

Answer 32

“When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors.”

Question 33

Lady Macbeth confesses to herself about the death of Banquo

Answer 33

“Wash your hands. put on your nightgown. Look not so pale. I tell you again, Banquo’s buried; he cannot come out on ‘s grave. “

Question 34

Macbeth tell’s himself not to kill Duncan as Duncan trusts him

Answer 34

“He’s here in double trust. First, as I am his kinsman and his subject… then, as his host.”

Question 35

Macbeth argues against supernatural powers

Answer 35

“Speak, I charge you!”

Question 36

The fact Banquo and Fleance still live is like the sting of a scorpion to Macbeth

Answer 36

“O, full of scorpions is my mind”