Macbeth Quotes - Act 1, Scene 7

Question 1

If Macbeth is going to kill Duncan, it would be best to do it quickly

Answer 1

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

It were done quickly’ (Macbeth)

Question 2

Macbeth fears his actions will teach others

Answer 2

‘we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor’ (Macbeth)

Question 3

Macbeth talks about a deadly cup

Answer 3

‘our poison’d chalice

To our own lips’ (Macbeth)

Question 4

Macbeth talks about how Duncan is in double trust

Answer 4

‘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)

Question 5

Macbeth talks about having no spur

Answer 5

‘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)

Question 6

Macbeth says that he will not kill Duncan

Answer 6

‘We will proceed no further in this business’ (Macbeth)

Question 7

Lady Macbeth questions whether he was drunk when he wanted to kill Duncan

Answer 7

‘Was the hope drunk

Wherein you dress’d yourself?’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 8

Macbeth says that if he went any further he wouldn’t be a man

Answer 8

‘I dare do all that may become a man;

Who dares do more is none.’ (Macbeth)

Question 9

Lady Macbeth says that Macbeth could be more than a man

Answer 9

‘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.’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 10

Lady Macbeth talks about how she would’ve killed a baby to keep her promise

Answer 10

‘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’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 11

Lady Macbeth tells her husband that if he was courageous, he wouldn’t fail

Answer 11

‘If we should fail?’ (Macbeth)

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

Question 12

Macbeth has changed his mind again

Answer 12

‘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’ (Macbeth)