Quotes Flashcards
The witches want to corrupt all that is good
What is good is bad and what is bad is good
Act 1 scene 1
Fair is foul and foul is fair
Macbeth is a hero on the battle field and is worthy of the praise given to him
Act 1 scene 2
For brave Macbeth well he deserves that name, distaining fortune with his brandished steel which smoked in bloody execution
The thane of Cawdor has betrayed the king and is now being sent to treason
Act1 scene 2
Norway himself Assisted by that most disloyal traitor the thane of Cawdor began a dismal conflict
Macbeth gets the title Thane of Cawdor
Act1 scene2
Go pronounce his present death and with his former title great Macbeth
Macbeths words echo the witches from the first scene linking him to the witches
Act 1 scene 2
So foul and fair a day I have not seen
Banquo is suspicous of the witches and warns Macbeth that agents of evil can tell us half truths and betray us later
Act1 scene 3
And oftentimes to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betrays in deepest consequence
Macbeth is frightened by his own reaction to the witches prophecy, He imagines murdering Ducan and is horrifies by his own thoughts
Act1 scene 3
Why do I yield to that suggestion who’s horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs against the use of nature
The king says it is not possible to tell what a person is like by looking at their face
Act 1 scene 4
There’s no art to find the minds construction in the face he was a gentleman on whom I built and absolute trust
Macbeth calls on the stars to hold their light so that is deepest desires cannot be seen
Act 1 scene 4
Stars hide your fires, let not light see my black and deep desires
Lady Macbeth worries that Macbeth is too full of kindness to kill the king and get what he wants
Act 1 scene 5
Yet do I fear thy nature, Is it too full o’ the milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way
Lady Macbeth says that Macbeth has the ambition but lacks the cruelty to commit the murder
Act 1 scene 5
Thou wouldst be great art not without ambition but without the illness should attend it
Lady Macbeth wants to persuade Macbeth to overcome what is keeping him from becoming king
Act 1 scene 5
Hie thee hither, that I may pour my spirits in thine ear and chastise with the valour of my tongue all that impedes thee from the golden round
Lady Macbeth wants to take away her womanly qualities and to be full of cruelty so she could commit the murder
Act 1 scene 5
Come you spirits, that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex my here and fill me from the crown to the toe top full of direst cruelty
Lady Macbeth wants to take a feminine part of her and fill it with something ugly and evil
Act 1 scene 5
Come to my women’s breasts and take my milk for gall
Lady Macbeth does not want anyone to know what she is about to do not even god
Act 1 scene 5
Come thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell, that my keen knife see not the wound it makes
Lady Macbeth advises her husband to appear innocent but be like a vicious snake underneath
Act 1 scene 5
Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under’t
Macbeth is backing out and doesn’t want to murder Duncan
Act1 scene 7
We will proceed no further in this business
Lady Macbeth questions whether Macbeth is too afraid to carry out the murder and do what it takes
Act 1 scene 7
Art thou afeard to be the same in thine own act an valour as thou art in desire
Lady Macbeth tells her husband that if they have courage they will not fail
Act 1 scene 7
But screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail
Macbeth decides to go through with the murder
Act 1 scene 7
I am settled and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat
Macbeth decides to go through with the murder
Act 1 scene 7
I am settled and bend up each corporal agent to this terrible feat
Macbeth must pretend to act innocent and loyal while knowing what evil thing he is about to do
At 1 scene 7
False face must hide what the false heart doth know
As Macbeth is preparing to kill the king he see’s a vision of a bloody dagger before him
Act 2 scene 1
Is this a dagger which I see before me the handle toward my hand
Lady Macbeth says she would of killed Duncan had he not reminded her of her father
Act 2 scene 2
Had he not resembled my father as he slept I had done’t
Lady Macbeth tells her husband not to think about the murder he has just committed
Act 2 scene 2
These deeds must not be thought after these ways
Macbeth is worried he wont be able to sleep as he feels the guilt of the murder he has committed
Act 2 scene 2
Glamis hath murdered sleep, and therefore Cawdor shall sleep no more, Macbeth shall sleep no more
IN panic Macbeth brought the bloody daggers back with him. Lady Macbeth Tells him to wash his hands and get rid of the blood
Act 2 scene 2
Go get some water and wash this filthy witness from your hands
Lady Macbeth says the sleeping and the dead look the same
Act 2 scene 2
The sleeping and the dead are but as pictures
Macduff uses Christian imagery to highlight the horror of the kings murder
Act2 scene 3
Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope The lords anointed temple
Malcom says its easy for a liar to pretend to be sad showing that he is suspicious of Macbeth
Act 2 scene3
To show an unfelt sorrow is an office which the false man does easy
Macduff doubts that Macbeth will be as good a king as Duncan
Act 2 scene 4
Lest our old robes sit easier than our new
Banquo says Macbeth has fulfilled the witches prophecies however he suspects That Macbeth has not got it fairly
Act 3 scene 1
Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all as the weird women promised and I fear thou played’st most foully for’t
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and placed a barren sceptre in my grip
Macbeth thinks there is little point in his title unless he can pass it on to an heir so his name will live on
Naught has alls spent where our desire is got without content
Lady Macbeth says she has lost everything because she has no piece of mind since the murder of Duncan
We have scorched the snake not killed it
she’ll close and be herself
Macbeth knows that as long as malcolm and donalbain live his rule may be challenged
And make our faces visors to our hearts disguising what thy are
Macbeth tells his wife that they must wear a mask and avoid showing people what they are really like
Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck till thou applaud the deed
Macbeth tells his wife that she does not need to know his plan to murder Banquo and that once the deed is done she will admire it
Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me
Macbeth is appauled to see Banquo’s ghost and tells it that there is no proof that he is responsible for the murder
This is the very painting of your fear this is the air drawn dagger which you said led you to duncan
Lady Macbeth thinks Macbeth is imagining seeing Banquo ghost like when he imagined the dagger infront of him
It will have blood they say blood will have blood
Once blood is spilt more blood will be spilt. One violent act leads to another
I am in blood stepped in so far, should I wade no more returning were as tedious as go oer
Macbeth says that he has commited such terrible acts that there is no going back now
By the pricking of my thumbs something wicked this way comes
The witches know Macbeth is coming to speak to them
Beware Macduff beware the thane of fife
The first apparition warns Macbeth to beware of Macduff, confirming his suspicions the macduff is not loyal to him
For none of woman born shall harm Macbeth
The second apparition says no one born of a woman shall ever harm you. Macbeth thinks he is safe
Macbeth shall never vanquished be untill great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come against him
Macbeth believes he is invinsiable
From this moment the very firstling of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand
He vows saying from now on when he thinks of something he will act on it.
The castle of Macduff i will surprise Seize upon Fife, give to the edge o the sword His wife his babes and all unfortunate souls that trace him to his line
He is going to kill Macduffs family
