Random Quotes For Macbeth Flashcards
Yet do I fear thy nature: / It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way.
Lady Macbeth to her self saying that Macbeth is a coward and won’t kill King Duncan
This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air / Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself / Unto our gentle senses
King Duncan to banquo
Dramatic irony since he described the castle as pleasant but he gets killed there
Away, and mock the time with fairest show: / False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
Macbeth to lady Macbeth
Macbeth is telling her to act like a friendly host while he goes to murder Duncan
Glamis thou art, and Cawdor; and shalt be / What thou art promised.
Lady Macbeth to herself reading the letter
She don’t think he has the capabilities to hold these positions
We but teach / Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return / To plague th’ inventor
Macbeth soliloquy debating about killing King Duncan or not
Killing King Duncan might motivate others to kill him once he’s the king
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!
Lady macbeth taking to herself
Make me less of a women and more of a man
Art thou afeard / To be the same in thine own act and valour, / As thou art in desire?
Lady Macbeth taunting Macbeth about being a coward unless he gets the courage to kill king Duncan
What are these, / So withered and so wild in their attire / That look not like th’ inhabitants o’ the earth / And yet are on ‘t?
Banquo to Macbeth talking about what the hell these witches are
If it were done when ‘t is done, then ‘t were well / It were done quickly
Macbeth to himself
If he going to kill king Duncan
It’s better off doing that quickly to limit consequences
The Prince of Cumberland! - That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, / For in my way it lies.
Macbeth to himself
Malcolm becomes Prince of Cumberland
Means he either gives up or steps up
There’s no art / To find the mind’s construction in the face
King Duncan is in shock due to the treason that the previous thane of Cawdor committed
You cannot look at ones face and see if they will betray you or not
The Thane of Cawdor lives: why do you dress me / In borrowed robes?
Macbeth to ross and angus asking why they giving drip that only thane of Cawdor would wear even though the previous one is still alive
So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
Macbeth first words refer to the paradox of stuff being reversed throughout the play
To banquo
