Quotes 2 Flashcards
Banquo can’t sleep
Banquo: A heavy summons lies like lead upon me,
And yet I would not sleep
Macbeth will help Banquo
Macbeth: If you shall cleave to my consent, when ‘tis,
It shall make honour for you.
Macbeth’s instrument of death
Macbeth: Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand?
Macbeth talking about the bell
Macbeth: Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
Lady Macbeth avoiding death
Lady Macbeth: Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done’t.
Macbeth staying awake
Macbeth: Macbeth shall sleep no more.
Macbeth is the enemy of sleep
Macbeth: Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more!
Macbeth does murder sleep
Lady Macbeth saying they might go mad in the future
Lady Macbeth: These deeds must not be thought
After these ways; so, it will make us mad.
Macbeth is afraid of blood
Macbeth: Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand?
Lady Macbeth cleaning
Lady Macbeth: A little water clears us of this deed:
How easy is it, then!
Macbeth’s self-hate
Macbeth: To know my deed, ‘twere best not know myself.
About the storm
Lennox: The night has been unruly: where we lay
Wind through the windows sound
Lennox: strange screams of death
Macbeth wishing he had stayed asleep
Macbeth: Had I but died an hour before this chance,
I had lived a blessed time
Macbeth confesses to more murders
Macbeth: O, yet I do repent me of my fury,
That I did kill them.
