Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

A battle

Answer 1

When the hurly burly’s done when the battle’s lost and won

Question 2

The third witch

Answer 2

There to meet with macbeth

Question 3

Foul (witches)

Answer 3

Fair is foul and foul is fair

Question 4

Captain says about macbeth

Answer 4

Brave Macbeth,well he deserves that name

Question 5

Minion (captain)

Answer 5

Like valours minion carv’d out his passage

Question 6

Cutting someone with sword

Answer 6

Till he unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps

And fixed his head upon our battlements’ (Captain)

Question 7

duncan ask macbeth and banquo

Answer 7

Dismay’d not this our captains, MacBeth and Banquo?’ (Duncan)

Question 8

Sarcastic, about animals

Answer 8

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

Question 9

Captain says about reeking wounds

Answer 9

meant to bathe in reeking wounds

Or memorise another Golgotha’ (Captain)

Question 10

Bride

Answer 10

Bellona’s bridegroom’ (Captain)

Question 11

Greeting macbeth

Answer 11

Go pronounce his present death

And with his former title greet MacBeth’ (Duncan)

Question 12

Opposite, in winning

Answer 12

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

Question 13

Macbeth foul and fair

Answer 13

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

Question 14

Man may question

Answer 14

Live you, or are you aught

That man may question?’ (Banquo)

Question 15

Banquo asking question about beards on women

Answer 15

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

Question 16

Witches hailing macbeth

Answer 16

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 17

Opposites the witches

Answer 17

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

Question 18

Ross about thane

Answer 18

He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor’ (Ross)

Question 19

Macbeth saying about glamis

Answer 19

(Aside) ‘Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:

The greatest is behind’ (MacBeth)

Question 20

Macbeth saying about ill

Answer 20

(Aside) ‘This supernatural soliciting

Cannot be ill, cannot be good’ (MacBeth)

Question 21

Macbeth saying the controversy of being king

Answer 21

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

Without my stir’ (MacBeth)

Question 22

Duncan saying about his cousin

Answer 22

worthiest cousin’ (Duncan)

Question 23

Pays and loyalty macbeth

Answer 23

The service and the loyalty I owe,

In doing it, pays itself’ (Macbeth)

Question 24

Macbeth talking about steps

Answer 24

Aside) ‘The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step

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

Question 25

Macbeth talking about stars and light

Answer 25

Aside) ‘Stars, hide your fires,

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

Question 26

Lady macbeth talking about nature

Answer 26

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

Question 27

Lady macbeth talking about ambition

Answer 27

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

Question 28

Lady macbeth talking about poisoning duncan

Answer 28

I may pour my spirits in thine ear’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 29

Lady macbeth talking about battlements

Answer 29

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

Question 30

Lady macbeth talking to the Ghosts to unsex her

Answer 30

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)

Question 31

Lady macbeth talking about milk

Answer 31

Come to my woman’s breasts,

And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 32

Lady macbeth saying not let the sun see what she is doing

Answer 32

O, never

Shall sun that morrow see!’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 33

Lady macbeth talking about flower

Answer 33

look like the innocent flower,

But be the serpent under’t’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 34

Macbeth saying something to be done quickly

Answer 34

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

It were done quickly’ (Macbeth)

Question 35

Macbeth talking about instruction and plague

Answer 35

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

Question 36

Macbeth talking about chalice

Answer 36

our poison’d chalice

To our own lips’ (Macbeth)

Question 37

Macbeth talking about king and knives

Answer 37

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’ (Macbeth)

Question 38

Macbeth talking about ambition

Answer 38

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)

Question 39

Macbeth talking about business

Answer 39

We will proceed no further in this business’ (Macbeth)

Question 40

Lady macbeth talking about clothes

Answer 40

Was the hope drunk

Wherein you dress’d yourself?’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 41

Macbeth talking about man

Answer 41

I dare do all that may become a man;

Who dares do more is none.’ (Macbeth)

Question 42

Lady macbeth talking to macbeth about man

Answer 42

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.’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 43

Lady macbeth talking about milk

Answer 43

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’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 44

Lady macbeth talking about failing

Answer 44

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

Question 45

Macbeth talking about corporal

Answer 45

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’ (Macbeth)

Question 46

Macbeth seeing a dagger

Answer 46

Is this a dagger which I see before me,

The handle toward my hand?’ (Macbeth)

Question 47

A bell rings

Answer 47

A bell rings
‘I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That summons thee to heaven or to hell.’ (Macbeth)

Question 48

Macbeth talking about his father and king duncan

Answer 48

Had he not resembled

My father as he slept, I had done’t.’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 49

Macbeth trying to get rid of religion

Answer 49

I had most need of blessing, and ‘Amen’

Stuck in my throat.’ (Macbeth)

Question 50

Mc talking about sleep

Answer 50

‘Sleep no more!

Macbeth does murder sleep’ (Macbeth)

Question 51

Mc shall not sleep

Answer 51

Macbeth shall sleep no more.’ (Macbeth)

Question 52

Mc talking about blood and sea

Answer 52

Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood

Clean from my hand?’ (Macbeth)

Question 53

Mc talking about white

Answer 53

My hands are of your colour; but I shame

To wear a heart so white.’ (Lady Macbeth)

Question 54

Knockin

Answer 54

Knocking within

‘Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!’ (Macbeth)