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MacBeth Quotes Flashcards

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Witches on when they will next meet

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When the Hurly-burlys done, when the battle is lost and won

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Who the witches will be meeting

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There to meet with MacBeth

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A play on words by the witches about fairness

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Fair is foul and foul is fair

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Referring to MacBeth and describing him well (captain)

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Brave MacBeth- well he deserves that name

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Describing MacBeth as someones minion (captain)

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Like valour’s minion carv’d out his passage

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What MacBeth did to the traitor (captain)

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Till he unseam’d him from the nave to th’ chaps and fixed his head upon our battlements

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Honouring MacBeth and Banquo (Duncan)

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Dismay’d not this our captains, MacBeth and Banquo

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Telling us weather MacBeth was scared (captain)

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Yes, as sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion

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Comparing MacBeth as the husband of the Goddess of war (captain)

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Bellona’s bridegroom

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Comparing him like a Jesus captain)

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Meant to bathe in reeking wounds or memorise another Golgotha

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Go and present MacBeth as the thane of Cawdor (Duncan)

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Go pronounce his present death and with his former title greet MacBeth

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What the others lost MacBeth won (Duncan)

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What he hath lost, noble MacBeth hath won

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Play on words by MacBeth similar to the Witches (MacBeth)

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So foul and fair a day I have not seen

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Banquo questioning MacBeth (Banquo)

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Libe you or are you aught that man may question

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Banquo analysing what he thinks is a woman (banquo)

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You should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so

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Witches greeting MacBeth in their prophecy (witches)

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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

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Banquos prophecy, not as good as MacBeth’s (witches)

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Lesser than MacBeth and greater not so happy, yet much happier, thou shalt get kings though thou be none

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18
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What Ross has to call MacBeth (ross)

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He bade me, from him, call the Thane of Cawdor

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MacBeth noticing that the best was before (MacBeth)

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Glamis, and the thane of Cawdor: the greatest is behind

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The Witches encounter can’t be good (MacBeth)

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This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good

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If MacBeth is to be king why does he have to do it himself (MacBeth)

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

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22
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The best cousin (Duncan)

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Worthiest cousin

23
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The service he does pays itself (MacBeth)

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The service and loyalty I owe, in doing it, pays itself

24
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About the prince of Cumberland either being a fall or a leap (MacBeth)

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The prince of Cumberland: that is a step on which I must fall down or else o’erleap

25
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Talking about stars showing his fate (MacBeth)

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Stars, hide your fires let light not see my black and deep desires

26
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MacBeth is too nice and is not evil enough (lady macbeth)

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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

27
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That MacBeth has the ambition just not bad enough to fulfil it

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Thou wouldst be great;

Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it

28
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Pouring thoughts into an ear

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I may pour my spirits in thine ear

Lady MacBeth

29
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The raven

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

30
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Talking to the spirits to make her less feminine

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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)

31
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Talking to the murdering ministers

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Come to my woman’s breast, and take my milk for gall you murdering ministers
(Lady MacBeth)

32
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Duncan shall not see the next day

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O, never shall sun that morrow see!

Lady MacBeth

33
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Looking innocent but not being so

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

34
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Wants the deed 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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Showing that he fears karma coming back to haunt him

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We but teach bloody instructions, which, being taught, return to plague the inventor
(MacBeth)

36
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The poison cup to ourselves

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Our poison’d chalice to our own lips

MacBeth

37
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How Duncan trusts MacBeth and what he is about to do is wrong

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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)

38
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How he has nothing bad towards Duncan just huge 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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They will not kill Duncan

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We will proceed no further in this business

MacBeth

40
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Where has your hope gone

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Was the hope drunk when you dress’d yourself

Lady MacBeth

41
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He wont to do all to become a man who does is not

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I dare to do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none
(MacBeth)

42
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She would rather dash a baby’s brains out than lie to MacBeth like he has done

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I have given suck, and i 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 its boneless gums, and dash’d the brains out, had i sworn as you have done this
(Lady MacBeth)

43
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Nervous on if they don’t succeed

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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)

44
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He has made up his mind

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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 false heart doth know
(MacBeth)

45
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The dagger to Duncans feat

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Is this a dagger which i see before me, the handle toward my hand?
(MacBeth)

46
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The bell that signals the deed

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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 hell
(MacBeth)

47
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No resemblance

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Had he not resembled my father as he slept, i had done’t

Lady MacBeth

48
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He needed prayer, about his throat

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I had most need of blessing, and ‘amen’ stuck in my throat

MacBeth

49
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MacBeth murdering in peoples sleep

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Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep
(Macbeth)

50
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No sleep for Macbeth

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Macbeth shall sleep no more

Macbeth

51
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He will never clean the guilt and blood of his hands

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Will all great Neptune’s ocean was this blood clean from my hand?
(MacBeth)

52
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That they are both as guilty as each other but lady MacBeth feels less guilty

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My hands are of your colour; but I shame to wear a heart so white
(Lady MacBeth)

53
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Trying not to wake Duncan with knocking

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Knocking within
Wake Duncan with my knocking! I would thou couldst!
(MacBeth)

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