McBeth Quotes

Question 1

Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2, Line 38-40

Answer 1

Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more; Macbeth does murder sleep, the innocent sleep, Sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care

Question 2

Lady Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 2, Line 70-71

Answer 2

A little water clears us of this deed. How easy it is then!

Question 3

Macbeth, Act 2 Scene 3, Line 91-94

Answer 3

Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant There’s nothing serious in mortality - All is but a toys: renown and grace is dead

Question 4

Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 1, Line 64-65

Answer 4

For Banquo’s issue have filed my mind, For them the gracious Duncan have I murdered

Question 5

Lady Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 2, Line 5-8

Answer 5

Nought’s had, all’s spent, Where our desire is got without content; ‘Tis safer to be that which we destroy, Than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy

Question 6

Lady Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 2, Line 12-3

Answer 6

Things without all remedy Should be without regard - What’s done is done

Question 7

Macbeth, Act 3 Scene 4, Line 137-139

Answer 7

I am in blood Stepped so far that. should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go’er

Question 8

Second Witch, Act 4 Scene 1, Line 44-45

Answer 8

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes

Question 9

Second Apparition, Act 4 Scene 1, Line 78-80

Answer 9

Be bloody, bold and resolute: laugh to scorn The power of man; for none of woman born shall harm Macbeth

Question 10

Third Apparition, Act 4 Scene 1, Line 92-94

Answer 10

Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinan Hill Shall come against him

Question 11

Malcolm, Act 4 Scene 2, Line 19-20

Answer 11

A good and virtuous nature may recoil In an imperial charge

Question 12

Lady Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 1, Line 37-38

Answer 12

The Thane of Fife, had a wife - where is she now? What, will these hands ne’er be clean?

Question 13

Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 5, Line 23-28

Answer 13

Out, out bried candle, Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more, It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury Signifying nothing

Question 14

Macduff, Act 5 Scene 7, Line 43-46

Answer 14

Despair thy charm And let the angel whom thou still hst served Tell thee, Macduff was from his mother’s womb Untimely ripped

Question 15

Macbeth, Act 5 Scene 7, Line 62-64

Answer 15

Yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield: lay on Macduff, And damned be him that first cries ‘Hold enough!’