Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

Bravery (1.2.16-17)

Answer 1

For brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name), Distaining Fortune, with his brandish’d steel

Question 2

Clothing (1.3.145-7)

Answer 2

New honours came upon him, like our strange garments, cleave not to their mould, but with the aid of use.

Question 3

Trust (1.4.11-14)

Answer 3

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face: He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust—

Question 4

Ambition (1.5.18-20)

Answer 4

Thou wouldst be great, Art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it.

Question 5

Cause and effect (1.7.1-4)

Answer 5

If it were done, when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well It were done quickly: if th’assasination Could trammel up the consequence, and catch with its surcease success

Question 6

Supernatural visions (2.1.33-5)

Answer 6

IS this a dagger, which i see before m, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee:— I have thee not, and yet I still see thee still.

Question 7

Irreversible effect (2.2.59-62)

Answer 7

Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this is my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnidine, making the green one red.

Question 8

Unnatural (2.4.10-13)

Answer 8

“It’s unnatural even like the deed that’s done. On Tuesday last, a falcon, towering in her pride of place, was by a mousing owl hawk’d at, and kill’d

Question 9

Paranoia (3.1.47)

Answer 9

To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus:

Question 10

Tyranny(4.3.218-9)

Answer 10

What, all my pretty chickens, and their dam, in one fell swoop?