Macbeth - quotes: Act Two

Question 1

There’s husbandry in heaven

Answer 1

Banquo to Fleance

Question 2

I dreamt last night of the three weird sisters: To you they have show’d some truth

Answer 2

Banquo to Macbeth

Question 3

If you shall cleave to my consent, when ‘tis, it shall make honour for you

Answer 3

Macbeth to Banquo

Question 4

Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee

Answer 4

Macbeth to himself

Question 5

I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible, to feeling as to sight?

Answer 5

Macbeth to himself

Question 6

Hear not my steps, which way they walk

Answer 6

Macbeth to himself

Question 7

Hear it not Duncan; for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell

Answer 7

Macbeth to himself

Question 8

That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold

Answer 8

Lady Macbeth to herself

Question 9

It was the owl that shriek’d, the fatal bellman

Answer 9

Lady Macbeth to herself

Question 10

Had he not resembled my father as he slept, I had done’t.

Answer 10

Lady Macbeth to herself

Question 11

I could not say ‘Amen’

Answer 11

Macbeth to Lady Macbeth

Question 12

I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’ stuck in my throat

Answer 12

Macbeth to Lady Macbeth

Question 13

‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep

Answer 13

Macbeth to Lady Macbeth

Question 14

Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures; ‘tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil

Answer 14

Lady Macbeth to Macbeth

Question 15

No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red

Answer 15

Macbeth to himself

Question 16

A little water clears us of this deed; how easy is it then!

Answer 16

Lady Macbeth to Macbeth

Question 17

Here’s a farmer that hanged himself on the expectation of plenty

Answer 17

Porter to himself

Question 18

The night has been unruly: where we lay, our chimneys were blown down; and, as they say, lamentings heard i’ the air; strange screams of death

Answer 18

Lennox to Macbeth

Question 19

Confusion now hath made his masterpiece! Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope the lord’s anointed temple

Answer 19

Macduff to Macbeth and Lennox

Question 20

O gentle lady! ‘Tis not for you to hear what I can speak; the repetition in a woman’s ear would murder as it fell

Answer 20

Macduff to Lady Macbeth

Question 21

Had I but died an hour before this chance I had liv’d a blessed time

Answer 21

Macbeth to All

Question 22

Yet I do repent me of my fury. That I did kill them.

Answer 22

Macbeth to Malcolm, Donalbain, Macduff and Lennox.

Question 23

Let us meet, and question this most bloody piece of work to know it further

Answer 23

Banquo to All

Question 24

There’s daggers in men’s smiles

Answer 24

Donalbain to Malcolm

Question 25

The sovereignty will fall upon Macbeth

Answer 25

Ross to Macduff and Old Man

Question 26

No cousin, I’ll to fife

Answer 26

Macduff to Ross

Question 27

Lest old robes sit easier than our new!

Answer 27

Macduff to Ross and Old Man

Question 28

And with those that would make good of bad, and friends of foes!

Answer 28

Old Man to Ross and Macduff