Macbeth - quotes: Act Four

Question 1

By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.

Answer 1

Second witch to other witches

Question 2

though the treasure of nature’s germens tumble all together, even till destruction sicken, answer me to what I ask you.

Answer 2

Macbeth to the witches

Question 3

Beware Macduff. Beware the thane of Fife.

Answer 3

First Apparition to Macbeth

Question 4

for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.

Answer 4

Second Apparition to Macbeth

Question 5

Macbeth shall never vanquish’d be until
Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill
Shall come against him.

Answer 5

Third Apparition to Macbeth

Question 6

Who can impress the forest, bid the tree unfix his earthbound root?

Answer 6

Macbeth to witches

Question 7

shall Banquo’s issue ever reign in this kingdom?

Answer 7

Macbeth to witches

Question 8

I will be satisfied. Deny me this, and an eternal curse fall on you!

Answer 8

Macbeth to witches

Question 9

damn’d all those that trust them!

Answer 9

Macbeth to Lennox

Question 10

The very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand.

Answer 10

Macbeth to Lennox

Question 11

For the poor wren, the most diminutive of birds, will fight, her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

Answer 11

Lady Macduff to Ross

Question 12

Then the liars and swearers are fools, for there are liars and swearers enow to beat the honest men, and hung up them.

Answer 12

Son to Lady Macduff

Question 13

But I remember now I am in this earthly world, where to do harm is often laudable, to do good sometime accounted dangerous folly.

Answer 13

Lady Macduff to Herself

Question 14

This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, was once thought honest.

Answer 14

Malcolm to Macduff

Question 15

Macbeth will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state esteem him as a lamb, being compar’d with my confineless harms.

Answer 15

Malcolm to Macduff

Question 16

Thy royal father was a most sainted king.

Answer 16

Macduff to Malcolm

Question 17

Fare thee well! These evils thou repeat’st upon thyself have banished me from Scotland. O my breast, thy hope ends here!

Answer 17

Macduff to Malcolm

Question 18

No; they were well at peace when I did leave ‘em.

Answer 18

Ross to Macduff

Question 19

Be comforted. Let’s make us medicine of our great revenge, to cure this deadly grief.

Answer 19

Malcolm to Macduff

Question 20

Let grief convert to anger; blunt not the heart, enrage it.

Answer 20

Malcolm to Macduff