Quotes

Question 1

A name macbeth deserves

Answer 1

brave MacBeth – well he deserves that name’ (Captain)

Question 2

Comparing to animals

Answer 2

‘Yes, as sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion’ (Captain)

Question 3

Memorise something

Answer 3

‘meant to bathe in reeking wounds

Or memorise another Golgotha’ (Captain)

Question 4

Macbeth has won

Answer 4

What he hath lost, noble MacBeth hath won’ (Duncan)

Question 5

A day macbeth has not seen

Answer 5

So foul and fair a day I have not seen’ (MacBeth)

Question 6

Banquo questions

Answer 6

Live you, or are you aught

That man may question?’ (Banquo)

Question 7

Witches appearance

Answer 7

‘you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so’ (Banquo)

Question 8

Hail someone

Answer 8

‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, that shalt be king hereafter.’ (Witches)

Question 9

Banquo is less but greater

Answer 9

Lesser than MacBeth, and greater.’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier.’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.’ (Witches)

Question 10

Greatest is somewhere

Answer 10

Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:

The greatest is behind’ (MacBeth)

Question 11

Supernatural

Answer 11

This supernatural soliciting

Cannot be ill, cannot be good’ (MacBeth)

Question 12

Something chance may do

Answer 12

If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me

Without my stir’ (MacBeth)

Question 13

Relative

Answer 13

worthiest cousin’ (Duncan)

Question 14

Paying with loyalty

Answer 14

The service and the loyalty I owe,

In doing it, pays itself’ (Macbeth)

Question 15

Someone Macbeth must leap over

Answer 15

The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step

On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap’ (Macbeth)

Question 16

Macbeths desires

Answer 16

Stars, hide your fires,

Let light not see my black and deep desires’ (Macbeth)

Question 17

Milk of kindness

Answer 17

yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way’

Question 18

Without ambition

Answer 18

‘thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it’

Question 19

The raven

Answer 19

The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements’

Question 20

Unsex me

Answer 20

Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty!’

Question 21

Come to breast

Answer 21

‘Come to my woman’s breasts,

And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers’

Question 22

If it were done

Answer 22

If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well

It were done quickly’

Question 23

Teach

Answer 23

we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor’

Question 24

Poison

Answer 24

our poison’d chalice

To our own lips

Question 25

Double…

Answer 25

He’s here in double trust;
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murderer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself’

Question 26

No spur

Answer 26

have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself
And falls on the other.’

Question 27

Not proceed in killing

Answer 27

We will proceed no further in this business’

Question 28

Hope drunk

Answer 28

Was the hope drunk

Wherein you dress’d yourself?

Question 29

Dare… man

Answer 29

I dare do all that may become a man;

Who dares do more is none.’

Question 30

Durst kill

Answer 30

When you durst do it, then you were a man;
And, to be more than what you were, you would
Be so much more the man.’

Question 31

Violent imagery of baby

Answer 31

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 pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums,
And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you
Have done to this’

Question 32

We fail

Answer 32

J If we should fail?’ (Macbeth)
‘We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail’

Question 33

Settled

Answer 33

I am settled, and bend up
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.
Away, and mock the time with fairest show:
False face must hide what the false heart doth know’

Question 34

Dagger floating

Answer 34

Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand?

Question 35

Resembling parent

Answer 35

Had he not resembled

My father as he slept, I had done’t

Question 36

Amen

Answer 36

I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’

Stuck in my throat.