Macbeth Act 1 Sc,7 Quotes Flashcards
If he is going to do it he should do it quickly
- ‘If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well It were done quickly’
If he does it others will do it to him
we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor’
Killing Ducan posions him
- ‘our poison’d chalice
To our own lips’
Reasons why he shouldnt kill him
‘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’
Macbeths ambition
- ‘I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself And falls on the other.’
Telling Lady Macbeth no more
We will proceed no further in this business’ (
Questions his soberness
Was the hope drunk
Wherein you dress’d yourself?’
Macbeth saying he will be less of a man if he does do it
‘I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares do more is none.’
Questioning his manhood
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.’
Using her dead child to convince him
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
Fail?
If we should fail?’ (Macbeth) ‘We fail!
But screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail
Settled in his thoughts
- ‘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’
