Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
Battle
When the hurly-burly’s done,
When the battle’s lost and won. (SW)
Meeting Macbeth
There to meet with Macbeth(TW)
Foreshadowing
Fair is foul and foul is fair.(W)
Describing Macbeth
Brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name
How Macbeth fought
Like Valour’s minion carv’d out his passage
What Macbeth did to the enemy leader
Till he unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps
And fixed his head upon our battlements
Asking about the reaction to Norwegian Leader.
Dismay’d not this our captains, MacBeth and Banquo?
Sarcastic response
Yes, as sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion
Bible related
meant to bathe in reeking wounds
Or memorise another Golgotha
War’s husband
Bellona’s bridegroom
Said to messenger. Macbeth’s promotion
Go pronounce his present death
And with his former title greet MacBeth
Describing Macbeth as good
What he hath lost, noble MacBeth hath won’
What the witches said at the start
So foul and fair a day I have not seen
Banquo questioning the witches
Live you, or are you aught
That man may question
Beards
you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so
Prophecy to 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.
Prophecy to Banquo
Lesser than MacBeth, and greater.’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier.’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none
Messenger talking to macbeth
He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor
Macbeth talking to himself about the prophecy coming true
Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:
The greatest is behind
Deciding if the phrphecy is good or bad
This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good
Wondering if macbeth will have to do anything to be king
If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me
Without my stir
Duncan calling macbeth his family
worthiest cousin
Macbeth saying the job pays itself
The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself
Macbeth thinking about the prince
The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap
Macbeth asking heaven not to show his badness
Stars, hide your fires,
Let light not see my black and deep desires
