Macbeth - quotes: Act One

Question 1

Fair is foul and foul is fair

Answer 1

All of the witches

Question 2

For brave Macbeth–well he deserves that name

Answer 2

Sergeant

Question 3

Till he unseam’d him from the nave to the chaps

Answer 3

Sergeant

Question 4

As sparrows eagles or the hare the lion

Answer 4

sergeant

Question 5

go pronounce his present death and with his former title greet macbeth

Answer 5

duncan

Question 6

sleep shall neither night nor day hang upon his pent house lid he shall live a man forbid

Answer 6

first witch

Question 7

so foul and fair a day I have not seen

Answer 7

macbeth

Question 8

you should be women and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so

Answer 8

banquo

Question 9

my noble partner you greet with present grace and great prediction of noble having and a royal hope, that he seems rapt withal

Answer 9

banquo

Question 10

lesser than Macbeth and greater

Answer 10

first witch

Question 11

not so happy yet much happier

Answer 11

second witch

Question 12

thou shalt get kings thou be none

Answer 12

third witch

Question 13

stay you imperfect speakers tell me more

Answer 13

macbeth

Question 14

what! can the devil speak true?

Answer 14

banquo

Question 15

why do you dress me in borrow’d robes

Answer 15

macbeth

Question 16

the greatest is behind

Answer 16

macbeth

Question 17

but tis strange: and often times to win us to our harm the instruments of darkness tell us truths win us with honest trifles to betrays in deepest consequence

Answer 17

banquo

Question 18

this supernatural soliciting cannot be ill

Answer 18

macbeth

Question 19

present fears are less than horrible imaginings; my thought whose murder yet is but fantastical

Answer 19

macbeth

Question 20

if chance will have me king why chance my crown me without my stir

Answer 20

macbeth

Question 21

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

Answer 21

duncan

Question 22

our eldest Malcolm whom we name hereafter the prince of cumberland

Answer 22

duncan

Question 23

the prince of Cumberland that is a step on which I must fall down or else over leap for in my way it lies

Answer 23

macbeth

Question 24

stars hide your fires! let not light see my black and deep desires

Answer 24

macbeth

Question 25

my dearest partner of greatness

Answer 25

lady Macbeth reading a letter from macbeth

Question 26

claims thou heart and Cawdor; and shalt be what thou art promis’d yet do I fear by nature

Answer 26

lady macbeth

Question 27

unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty

Answer 27

lady macbeth

Question 28

come to my woman’s breasts and take my milk for gall

Answer 28

lady Macbeth

Question 29

come thick night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark, to cry hold hold.

Answer 29

lady Macbeth

Question 30

o! never shall sun that morrow see

Answer 30

lady Macbeth

Question 31

look like the innocent flower

Answer 31

lady macbeth

Question 32

this castle hath a pleasant seat

Answer 32

duncan

Question 33

that we but teach bloody instructions which being taught return to plague the inventor

Answer 33

Macbeth

Question 34

this Duncan hath borne his faculties so meek hath been so clear in his great office that his virtues will plead like angels trumpet tongu’d against that deep damnation of his taking off

Answer 34

macbeth

Question 35

I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent but only vaulting ambition

Answer 35

macbeth

Question 36

from this time such I account thy love. art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act and valour as thou art desire?

Answer 36

lady Macbeth

Question 37

false face must hide what the false heart doth know

Answer 37

Macbeth