Quotes Flashcards
Seen
So foul and fair a day I have not seen’ (MacBeth)
Question
Live you, or are you aught
That man may question?’ (Banquo)
Beards
you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so’ (Banquo)
All hail
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)
Greater happier
Lesser than MacBeth, and greater.’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier.’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.’ (Witches)
Cawdor
He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor’ (Ross)
Glamos
(Aside) ‘Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:
The greatest is behind’ (MacBeth)
Supernatural
(Aside) ‘This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good’ (MacBeth)
Crown me
If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me
Without my stir’ (MacBeth)
Cousin
worthiest cousin’ (Duncan)
Loyalty
The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself’ (Macbeth)
Cuberland
Aside) ‘The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap’ (Macbeth)
Stars and fire
Aside) ‘Stars, hide your fires,
Let light not see my black and deep desires’ (Macbeth)
Nature
yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way’ (Lady Macbeth)