Quotes Flashcards
The Witches’ Chant
Fair is foul and foul is fair,
Hover through the fog and filthy air.
King Duncan’s Description of Macbeth
O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman!
The Captain’s Description of Macbeth
brave Macbeth
The Traitor Ross Talks About
The Thane of Cawdor
Ross’s Description of Macbeth
Bellona’s bridegroom
King Duncan Describing The Winning and Losing of The Title
What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.
Macbeth Describing The Day
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
echoing the witches
Banquo Describing The Witches
What are these,
So withered, and so wild in their attire,
That look not like th’inhabitants o’th’earth,
Third Witch Predicts Macbeth Will Be King
All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter!
Third Witch Predicts Banquo Will Be the Father or Ancestor of Kings.
Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.
Macbeth asking why the messengers give him a title that he believes isn’t his.
why do you dress me
In borrowed robes?
Macbeth saying the best is yet to come
Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor!
The greatest is behind!
Banquo talking about deception by evil using small inconsequential truths.
But 'tis strange: And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray's In deepest consequence.
Macbeth saying what has happened cannot be both good and evil.
This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good.
Macbeth hoping that faith will make him king.
If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me,
Without my stir.
Banquo’s description of the new title Macbeth must get used to.
strange garments
King Duncan saying you cannot judge a man’s character by his face.
There’s no art
To find the mind’s construction in the face
Macbeth saying that his loyal service to the king is it’s own reward.
The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself.
Macbeth planning to murder King Duncan following him naming his son Malcolm as the heir to the throne.
The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap,
For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires!
Let not light see my black and deep desires;
The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be
Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.
Lady Macbeth doubting Macbeth has the right character to steal the throne.
Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be
What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.
Lady Macbeth wanting to talk to Macbeth so she can prepare him and convince him to kill the king.
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 asking to be rid of her femininity and have it replaced by cruelty
unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty.
Lady Macbeth on turning her milk bitter and anger inducing
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers,
Lady Macbeth addressing Macbeth when he enters the room and addressing his future kingship.
Great Glamis! Worthy Cawdor!
Greater than both, by the all-hail hereafter.
Lady Macbeth saying King Duncan will not see the light of day
O, never
Shall sun that morrow see.
Lady Macbeth saying Macbeth should hide cruelty with innocence.
look like the innocent flower,
But be the serpent under’t.
King Duncan asking Lady Macbeth to take him to Macbeth + dramatic irony example.
Give me your hand;
Conduct me to mine host: we love him highly,
And shall continue our graces towards him.
Macbeth wanting to get the deed over and done with.
If it were done, when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well
It were done quickly.
Macbeth on how his actions may have bad consequences for him
But in these cases
We still have judgement here,
Macbeth on how as King Duncan’s host he should be protecting him not harming him.
as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself.
Macbeth saying his sole incentive in killing King Duncan is his ambition. (Macbeth’s hamartia)
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls on the other.
Macbeth saying people’s new and good opinions of him are like new clothes.
We will proceed no further in this business:
He hath honoured me of late, and I have bought
Golden opinions from all sorts of people,
Which would be worn now in their newest gloss,
Not cast aside so soon. (more clothes imagery)
Macbeth saying that he will only do what is becoming of a gentleman.
I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more, is none.
Lady Macbeth saying what she would do to keep a resolution like Macbeth’s.
I have given suck, and know
How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me -
I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this.
Lady Macbeth saying if Macbeth is courageous they will not fail.
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail.
Macbeth saying that they must deceive the people around them by wearing a mask of innocence.
False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
