Macbeth Quotes Act 1

Question 1

Witches Act 1 Scene 1

Answer 1

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair:”

Question 2

Captain’s description of Macbeth. Act 1 Scene 2. Give 2.

Answer 2

“For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name.”

“Like Valour’s minion - carved out his passage, till he faced the slave; which he ne’er shook hands, nor bade farewell to him, till he unseamed him from the nave to th’chops, and fixed his head upon our battlements.”

Question 3

Duncan’s description of Macbeth. Act 1 Scene 2.

Answer 3

“Valiant cousin.”

Question 4

Ross’s description of Macbeth.

Answer 4

“Bellona’s bridegroom.”

Question 5

Act 1, Scene 3. Repetition of witches words from Macbeth.

Answer 5

“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”

Question 6

Act 1, Scene 3. Banquo describes witches.

Answer 6

“What are these, so withered, and so wild in their attire, that look not like the inhabitants o’th’earth, and yet are on’t?

Question 7

Act 1, Scene 3. Macbeth’s reaction to the prophecy. Give 2.

Answer 7

“Good sir, why do you start, and seem to fear, things that do sound so fair?”

“He seems rapt withal.”

Question 8

Act 1, Scene 3. Prophecy for Banquo.

Answer 8

“Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.”

Question 9

Act 1, Scene 1. Macbeth receiving news of his new title, ‘Cawdor’. Give 2.

Answer 9

“Why do you dress me in borrowed robes?”

“Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor! The greatest is behind!”

Question 10

Act 1 Scene 3. Banquo foreshadowing.

Answer 10

“But ‘tis strange, and oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray us in deepest consequence.”

Question 11

Act 1 Scene 3. Macbeth’s conclusions on prophecy. Give 2.

Answer 11

“This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good.”

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

Question 12

Act 1 Scene 3. Banquo clothing imagery.

Answer 12

“Strange garments.”

Question 13

Act 1, Scene 4. Duncan is trusting and gullible.

Answer 13

“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 14

Act 1, Scene 4. Macbeth is two-faced.

Answer 14

“The service and the loyalty I owe, in doing it, pays itself.”

Question 15

Act 1, Scene 4. For the first time Macbeth is willing to kill the king. Give 2.

Answer 15

“The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, for in my way it lies.”

“Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires; the eye wink at the hand, yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.”

Question 16

Act 1, Scene 5. Lady Macbeth fears Macbeth is too soft to do what must be done to crown him king.

Answer 16

“Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be what thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature, it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.”

Question 17

Act 1, Scene 5. Lady Macbeth calls upon the darkness. Give 3.

Answer 17

“Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear, and chastise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round”
“Unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty.”
“Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers”

Question 18

Act 1, Scene 5. Lady Macbeth greets Macbeth.

Answer 18

“Great Glamis! Worthy Cawdor! Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter.”

Question 19

Act 1, Scene 5. Lady Macbeth and her plan to kill Duncan.

Answer 19

“O, never shall sun that morrow see.”

“Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under it.”

Question 20

Act 1, Scene 6. Duncan dramatic irony and gullible.

Answer 20

“Give me your hand; conduct me to mine host: we love him highly, and shall continue our graces towards him, by your leave,hostess.”

Question 21

Act 1, Scene 7. Macbeth’s doubts. Give 4.

Answer 21

“If it were done, when ‘tis done, then t’were well it were done quickly.”
“But in these cases we still have judgment here.”
“Who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself.”
“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other.”

Question 22

Act 1, Scene 7. Macbeth doesn’t want to proceed.

Answer 22

“We will proceed no further in this business: he hath honoured me of late, and I have bought golden opinions from all sorts of people, which would be worn now in their newest gloss, not cast aside so soon.”

Question 23

Act 1, Scene 7. Lady Macbeth emasculates Macbeth.

Answer 23

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