Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

‘Fair is

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foul, and foul is fair’ -Macbeth

Question 2

‘When the

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battle’s lost and won.’ -Witches

Question 3

‘If chance

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shall have me king, why, chance may crown me.’ -Macbeth

Question 4

‘unsex me

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here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty.’ -Lady Macbeth

Question 5

‘Look like

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the innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.’ -Lady Macbeth

Question 6

‘I do

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fear thy nature; it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.’ -Lady Macbeth

Question 7

‘Wouldst thou

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have that which thou esteem’st the ornament of life, and live a coward in thine own esteem.’ -Lady Macbeth

Question 8

‘I have

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no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition.’ -Macbeth

Question 9

‘Thou play’dst

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most foully for’t: yet it was said it should not stand in thy posterity’ -Banquo

Question 10

‘What’s done

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is done.’ -Lady Macbeth

Question 11

‘We have

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scotched the snake, not killed it’ -Macbeth

Question 12

‘Our suffering

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country under a hand accursed!’ -Lennox

Question 13

‘None of

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woman born shall harm Macbeth.’ -Witches/Apparition

Question 14

‘Macbeth shall

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never be vanquished until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him.’ -Witches/Apparition

Question 15

‘The very

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firstlings of my heart be the firstlings of my hand.’ -Macbeth

Question 16

‘be it

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thought and done.’ -Macbeth

Question 17

‘Those he

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commands move only in command, nothing in love’ -Angus

Question 18

‘and that

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which should accompany old age, as honour, love, obedience, troops of friends’ -Macbeth (Because of his ambition/greed he has lost all those luxuries)

Question 19

‘our fear

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in Banquo stick deep.’ -Macbeth (Fears that Banquo is plotting against him)

Question 20

‘My hands

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are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white.’ -Lady Macbeth (Thinks that Macbeth is a coward)

Question 21

‘He’s here

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in double trust.’ -Macbeth (Not only is he the king’s kinsman, but he is also his host)

Question 22

What does equivocation mean?

Answer 22

To speak in an unclear or confusing way, usually to hide the truth.