Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
A battle
When the hurly burly’s done when the battle’s lost and won
The third witch
There to meet with macbeth
Foul (witches)
Fair is foul and foul is fair
Captain says about macbeth
Brave Macbeth,well he deserves that name
Minion (captain)
Like valours minion carv’d out his passage
Cutting someone with sword
Till he unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps
And fixed his head upon our battlements’ (Captain)
duncan ask macbeth and banquo
Dismay’d not this our captains, MacBeth and Banquo?’ (Duncan)
Sarcastic, about animals
Yes, as sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion’ (Captain)
Captain says about reeking wounds
meant to bathe in reeking wounds
Or memorise another Golgotha’ (Captain)
Bride
Bellona’s bridegroom’ (Captain)
Greeting macbeth
Go pronounce his present death
And with his former title greet MacBeth’ (Duncan)
Opposite, in winning
What he hath lost, noble MacBeth hath won’ (Duncan)
Macbeth foul and fair
So foul and fair a day I have not seen’ (MacBeth)
Man may question
Live you, or are you aught
That man may question?’ (Banquo)
Banquo asking question about beards on women
you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so’ (Banquo)
Witches hailing macbeth
All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, that shalt be king hereafter.’ (Witches)
Opposites the witches
Lesser than MacBeth, and greater.’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier.’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.’ (Witches)
Ross about thane
He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor’ (Ross)
Macbeth saying about glamis
(Aside) ‘Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:
The greatest is behind’ (MacBeth)
Macbeth saying about ill
(Aside) ‘This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good’ (MacBeth)
Macbeth saying the controversy of being king
If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me
Without my stir’ (MacBeth)
Duncan saying about his cousin
worthiest cousin’ (Duncan)
Pays and loyalty macbeth
The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself’ (Macbeth)
Macbeth talking about steps
Aside) ‘The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap’ (Macbeth)
Macbeth talking about stars and light
Aside) ‘Stars, hide your fires,
Let light not see my black and deep desires’ (Macbeth)
Lady macbeth talking about nature
yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way’ (Lady Macbeth)
Lady macbeth talking about ambition
‘thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it’ (Lady Macbeth)
Lady macbeth talking about poisoning duncan
I may pour my spirits in thine ear’ (Lady Macbeth)
Lady macbeth talking about battlements
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements’ (Lady Macbeth)
Lady macbeth talking to the Ghosts to unsex her
Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty!’ (Lady Macbeth)
Lady macbeth talking about milk
Come to my woman’s breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers’ (Lady Macbeth)
Lady macbeth saying not let the sun see what she is doing
O, never
Shall sun that morrow see!’ (Lady Macbeth)
Lady macbeth talking about flower
look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under’t’ (Lady Macbeth)
Macbeth saying something to be done quickly
If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well
It were done quickly’ (Macbeth)
Macbeth talking about instruction and plague
we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor’ (Macbeth)
Macbeth talking about chalice
our poison’d chalice
To our own lips’ (Macbeth)
Macbeth talking about king and knives
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’ (Macbeth)
Macbeth talking about ambition
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls on the other.’ (Macbeth)
Macbeth talking about business
We will proceed no further in this business’ (Macbeth)
Lady macbeth talking about clothes
Was the hope drunk
Wherein you dress’d yourself?’ (Lady Macbeth)
Macbeth talking about man
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.’ (Macbeth)
Lady macbeth talking to macbeth about man
When you durst do it, then you were a man;
And, to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man.’ (Lady Macbeth)
Lady macbeth talking about milk
I have given suck, and know
How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me:
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this’ (Lady Macbeth)
Lady macbeth talking about failing
If we should fail?’ (Macbeth)
‘We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail’ (Lady Macbeth)
Macbeth talking about corporal
I am settled, and bend up
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show:
False face must hide what the false heart doth know’ (Macbeth)
Macbeth seeing a dagger
Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?’ (Macbeth)
A bell rings
A bell rings
‘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.’ (Macbeth)
Macbeth talking about his father and king duncan
Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done’t.’ (Lady Macbeth)
Macbeth trying to get rid of religion
I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’
Stuck in my throat.’ (Macbeth)
Mc talking about sleep
‘Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep’ (Macbeth)
Mc shall not sleep
Macbeth shall sleep no more.’ (Macbeth)
Mc talking about blood and sea
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand?’ (Macbeth)
Mc talking about white
My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white.’ (Lady Macbeth)
Knockin
Knocking within
‘Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!’ (Macbeth)
