Macbeth quotes complete Flashcards
Name at least two quotes about how Macbeth is described by various characters at the BEGINNING.
Captain: “For brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name”
Duncan: “O valiant cousin, worthy gentlemen”
Captain: “As cannons overcharg’d with double cracks”
Ross: “Bellona’s bridegroom lapp’d in proof”
Name at least two quotes about how Macbeth is described by various characters at the END.
Malcolm: “When shall I tread upon the tyrant’s head”
Macduff: “Not in the legions / of horrid hell can come a devil more damn’d / In evils to top Macbeth.”
Macduff: “The usurper’s cursed head. The time is free”
Name at least two quotes that show Macbeth equivocating.
Macbeth:
“Bloody instructions, which, being taught return / To plague the inventor.”
“Proceeding from this heat-oppressed brain?”
“Our fears in Banquo / Stick deep”
Name at least two quotes about being a man.
Duncan: “O valiant cousin, worthy gentlemen”
Duncan: “He was a gentleman on whom I built / An absolute trust. O worthiest cousin”
Lady Macbeth: “I dare do all that may become a man.”
Lady Macbeth: “Are you a man?”
Name at least two quotes or examples of what makes a good king.
Macbeth: “Hath bourne his faculties so meek, hath been / so clear in his great office.”
Macbeth: “His silver skin lac’d with his golden blood”
Lennox: “The gracious Duncan”
Lord: “Of the most pious Edward with such grace.”
Name at least two quotes showing how killing the King causes unnatural events.
Ross: “The day’s shame, / That darkness does the face of the Earth Entomb”
Old man: “Tis said they eat each other”
Lennox: “Our chimneys were blown down” “Lametings in the air heard, strange screams of death.”
“Twas a rough night.”
Name two quotes that show how Lady Macbeth is at the BEGINNING.
Lady Macbeth:
Same soliloquy, “Unsex me here” “Come to my woman’s breasts / And take my milk for gall”
“But screw your courage to the sticking-place, / And we’ll not fail.”
Name at least two quotes that show how Lady Macbeth is at the END.
Lady Macbeth:
“Out, damned spot! Out, I say! one, two”
“To bed, to bed: there’s a knocking at the gate. Come, / come, come, come, come, give me your hand; what’s done / cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.”
Name at least two quotes about deceit and honesty.
Deceit
Macbeth: “If chance will have me King, why chance may crown me, without my stir.”
Macbeth: “Come what come may.”
Lady Macbeth: “Look like th’innocent flower, / Bu be the serpent underneath.”
Honesty
Macbeth: “His silver skin lac’d with his golden blood.”
Lord: “Of most pious Edward with such grace.”
Name at least two quotes about blood.
Captain: “Except they meant to bathe in reeking wounds”
Macbeth: “And his gash’d stabs look’d like a breach in nature.”
Macbeth: “Gouts of blood.”
Lady Macbeth: “Out, damned spot! Out, I say!
Lady Macbeth: “Who would have thought the old man to have so much blood in him?”
Name two quotes about madness.
Lady Macbeth:
“The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?”
“What’s done cannot be undone. To bed, to bed, to bed.”
Name two quotes that show what the witches are like.
“I’ll do, I’ll do and I’ll do.”
“Finger of birth-strangled babe, / Ditch-deliver’d by a drab.”
Name two quotes about Banquo’s personality.
Captain: “So they doubly redoubled strokes upon the foe.”
Macbeth: “Our fears in Banquo / Stick deep, and his royalty of nature / Reigns that which would be fear’d.”
Name two quotes about Macduff.
“Industrious soldiership”
“My voice is in my sword”
