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Macbeth Quotes Flashcards

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A battle

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When the hurly burly’s done when the battle’s lost and won

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The third witch

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There to meet with macbeth

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Foul (witches)

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Fair is foul and foul is fair

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Captain says about macbeth

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Brave Macbeth,well he deserves that name

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Minion (captain)

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Like valours minion carv’d out his passage

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Cutting someone with sword

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Till he unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps

And fixed his head upon our battlements’ (Captain)

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duncan ask macbeth and banquo

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Dismay’d not this our captains, MacBeth and Banquo?’ (Duncan)

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Sarcastic, about animals

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Yes, as sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion’ (Captain)

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Captain says about reeking wounds

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meant to bathe in reeking wounds

Or memorise another Golgotha’ (Captain)

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Bride

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Bellona’s bridegroom’ (Captain)

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Greeting macbeth

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Go pronounce his present death

And with his former title greet MacBeth’ (Duncan)

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Opposite, in winning

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What he hath lost, noble MacBeth hath won’ (Duncan)

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Macbeth foul and fair

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So foul and fair a day I have not seen’ (MacBeth)

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Man may question

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Live you, or are you aught

That man may question?’ (Banquo)

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Banquo asking question about beards on women

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you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so’ (Banquo)

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Witches hailing macbeth

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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)

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17
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Opposites the witches

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Lesser than MacBeth, and greater.’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier.’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.’ (Witches)

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18
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Ross about thane

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He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor’ (Ross)

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Macbeth saying about glamis

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(Aside) ‘Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:

The greatest is behind’ (MacBeth)

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Macbeth saying about ill

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(Aside) ‘This supernatural soliciting

Cannot be ill, cannot be good’ (MacBeth)

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Macbeth saying the controversy of being king

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If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me

Without my stir’ (MacBeth)

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Duncan saying about his cousin

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worthiest cousin’ (Duncan)

23
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Pays and loyalty macbeth

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The service and the loyalty I owe,

In doing it, pays itself’ (Macbeth)

24
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Macbeth talking about steps

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Aside) ‘The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step

On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap’ (Macbeth)

25
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Macbeth talking about stars and light

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Aside) ‘Stars, hide your fires,

Let light not see my black and deep desires’ (Macbeth)

26
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Lady macbeth talking about nature

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yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way’ (Lady Macbeth)

27
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Lady macbeth talking about ambition

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‘thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it’ (Lady Macbeth)

28
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Lady macbeth talking about poisoning duncan

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I may pour my spirits in thine ear’ (Lady Macbeth)

29
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Lady macbeth talking about battlements

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The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements’ (Lady Macbeth)

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Lady macbeth talking to the Ghosts to unsex her

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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)

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Lady macbeth talking about milk

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Come to my woman’s breasts,

And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers’ (Lady Macbeth)

32
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Lady macbeth saying not let the sun see what she is doing

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O, never

Shall sun that morrow see!’ (Lady Macbeth)

33
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Lady macbeth talking about flower

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look like the innocent flower,

But be the serpent under’t’ (Lady Macbeth)

34
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Macbeth saying something to be done quickly

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If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well

It were done quickly’ (Macbeth)

35
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Macbeth talking about instruction and plague

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we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor’ (Macbeth)

36
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Macbeth talking about chalice

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our poison’d chalice

To our own lips’ (Macbeth)

37
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Macbeth talking about king and knives

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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)

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Macbeth talking about ambition

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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)

39
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Macbeth talking about business

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We will proceed no further in this business’ (Macbeth)

40
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Lady macbeth talking about clothes

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Was the hope drunk

Wherein you dress’d yourself?’ (Lady Macbeth)

41
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Macbeth talking about man

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I dare do all that may become a man;

Who dares do more is none.’ (Macbeth)

42
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Lady macbeth talking to macbeth about man

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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)

43
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Lady macbeth talking about milk

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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)

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Lady macbeth talking about failing

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If we should fail?’ (Macbeth)
‘We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail’ (Lady Macbeth)

45
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Macbeth talking about corporal

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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)

46
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Macbeth seeing a dagger

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Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand?’ (Macbeth)

47
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A bell rings

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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)

48
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Macbeth talking about his father and king duncan

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Had he not resembled

My father as he slept, I had done’t.’ (Lady Macbeth)

49
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Macbeth trying to get rid of religion

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I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’

Stuck in my throat.’ (Macbeth)

50
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Mc talking about sleep

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‘Sleep no more!

Macbeth does murder sleep’ (Macbeth)

51
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Mc shall not sleep

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Macbeth shall sleep no more.’ (Macbeth)

52
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Mc talking about blood and sea

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Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood

Clean from my hand?’ (Macbeth)

53
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Mc talking about white

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My hands are of your colour; but I shame

To wear a heart so white.’ (Lady Macbeth)

54
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Knockin

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Knocking within

‘Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!’ (Macbeth)

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