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MacBeth Quotes Flashcards

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Hurly Burly

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When the hurly hurlys done, when the battles lost and won

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Meet MacBeth

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There to meet with MacBeth

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Fair is

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Fair is foul and foul is fair

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Brave MacBeth

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Brave macbeth, well he deserves that name.

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Valours minion

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Like valours minion carvd out his passage

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Unseamd him

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Till he unseamed him from the nave to the chaps. And fixed his head upon our battlements,

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Dismayd this

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Dismayd this our captains, MacBeth and Banquo.

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Sparrows, eagles

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

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Bathe in reeking

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Meant to bathe in reeking wounds, or remember another golgotha

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Bellona

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Bellonas bridgegroom

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Present death, former title,

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Go pronouce his present death, and with his former title greet macbeth

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Hath lost

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What he hath lost, noble macbeth has won,

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So foul … (Said by Macbeth)

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So foul and fair a day I have not seen

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Live you … may question

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Live you, or are you aught

That man may question?’ (Banquo)

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You should be women… forbid me to inter…

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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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All hail MacBeth (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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Witches view on Banquo…. Lesser than MacBeth

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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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Duncan calls on ross to say a message…. bade me

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

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Glamis… and… cawdor… greatest is beh..

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Aside) ‘Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:

The greatest is behind’ (MacBeth)

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(Aside) Supernatural soliciting….. not ill… not good

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Aside) ‘This supernatural soliciting

Cannot be ill, cannot be good’ (MacBeth)

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Chance will have me king…… without my stir

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

Without my stir’ (MacBeth)

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22
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2 words… worthiest

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worthiest cousin’ (Duncan)

23
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Service… loyalty i owe…. pays itself

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The service and the loyalty I owe,

In doing it, pays itself’ (Macbeth)

24
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(Aside) Prince or CumberLa…. step i must fall down….o’erleap’

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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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(Aside) stars hide your….. let light not see my bla..

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Aside) ‘Stars, hide your fires,

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

26
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Yet do i….
It is too full
To catch…

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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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Thou wouldst….
Art not….
The illness..

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Thou wouldst be great
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attended it

28
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I may pour…

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I many pour my spirits in thine ear

29
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The raven himself….
That croaks
Under…

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The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements

30
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Come, you…
That tend on mortal….
And fill me from…

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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

31
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Come to my…

And take my milk…

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Come to my womans breasts

And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers

32
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O never

Shall….

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O never

Shall sun that morrow see

33
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Look like the…

But be the…

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Look like the innocent flower

But be the serpent under’t

34
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If it were done…

It were done quickly

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

It were done quickly

35
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We but teach
Bloody….
To plague…

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

36
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Our poison’d….

To our…

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our poison’d chalice

To our own lips

37
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He's here...
First, as i am his...
Strong both against...
Who should against 
Not bear....
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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’

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I have no spur
To prick the…
Vaulting ambition…
And falls…

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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.

39
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We will proceed no…

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We will proceed no further in this business’

40
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Was the hope…

Wherein you…. ?

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Was the hope drunk

Wherein you dress’d yourself?

41
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I dare do all that…

Who dares do…

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I dare do all that may become a man;

Who dares do more is none.

42
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When you durst do it…
And, to be more than ….
Be so much more….

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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.

43
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I have given....
How tender tis to love...
I would, while it was...
Have pluck'd my nipple
And dash'd the brains out...
Have dine to this.
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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

44
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If we should …
We …!
But screw your courage
And we’ll not…

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

45
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I am settled….
Each corporal agent….
Away, and mock the time with..
False face must hide what….

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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’

46
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Is this a dagger…

The handle toward…

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Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand?

47
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I go, and it is done…
Hear it not, Dun…
That summons thee to…

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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

48
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Had he not…

My father as he sl…

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Had he not resembled

My father as he slept, I had done’t.

49
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I had most need of bles….

Stuck in my…

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I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’

Stuck in my throat.

50
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Sleep no….!

Macbeth does…

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Sleep no more!

Macbeth does murder sleep

51
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Macbeth shall sle…

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Macbeth shall sleep no more.

52
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Will all great neptune’s…

Clean from my….

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Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood

Clean from my hand?

53
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My hands are of your…

To wear a hea….

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My hands are of your colour; but I shame

To wear a heart so white

54
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(Knocking within)

Wake Duncan with thy knock…

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Knocking within

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

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