Macbeth Quotes Act 1 Scene 7 - Act 2 Scene 2 Flashcards
Macbeth saying that the murder should be done quickly
If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well
It were done quickly’ (Macbeth)
Killing Duncan will return and plague him back
we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor’ (Macbeth)
Chalice - poison- lips
‘our poison’d chalice
To our own lips’ (Macbeth)
Macbeth explaining he shouldn’t kill Duncan as his role is to protect him
‘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)
Macbeth only wants to vault over his ambitions and not fail
‘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)
Macbeth being indecisive with killing Duncan and not talking about his ‘business’
‘We will proceed no further in this business’ (Macbeth)
Lady Macbeth - asking if his hope is drunk
‘Was the hope drunk
Wherein you dress’d yourself?’ (Lady Macbeth)
Macbeth does everything to be a man but not over the top
‘I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.’ (Macbeth)
Lady Macbeth challenging Macbeths manhood explaining that when he promised he would do the deed back then he was a man
‘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)
Lady Macbeth saying she would kill a baby for Macbeth to be king.
‘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)
Lady Macbeth saying that they wont fail
‘If we should fail?’ (Macbeth)
‘We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail’ (Lady Macbeth)
Macbeth being decisive that he will do the deed
‘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)
Macbeth sees a dagger
‘Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?’ (Macbeth)
A bell rings to summon Macbeth to kill Duncan
A bell rings
‘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.’ (Macbeth)
Lady Macbeth saying she would have killed Duncan if he didn’t look like her father.
‘Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done’t.’ (Lady Macbeth)
