Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
Act 1 Scene 1
Witches meet together
Fair is foul and foul is fair - Witches
Act 1 Scene 2
Duncan hears about Macbeth and Banquos victory and learns about the old Thane of Cawdors betrayal so he then give the title to Macbeth
Smoked with bloody execution - Captain
Like Valours minion carved out his passage - Captain
Act 1 Scene 3
The witches meet Macbeth and Banquo to tell them about the prophecies. Macbeth is told about his new title, the Thane of Cawdor
Stay you imperfect speakers. Tell me more. - Macbeth
The instruments of darkness tell us truths;win us with honest trifles to betray us - Banquo
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs - Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 4
Duncan meets Macbeth and Banquo and announced that Malcolm will be the next king
Let not light see my dark and deep desires - Macbeth
True, worthy Banquo, he is full so valiant - Duncan
Act 1 Scene 5
Lady Macbeth reads the letter from Macbeth about the prophecies and greets Macbeth home
It is too full of the milk of human kindness - Lady Macbeth
Art not without ambition, but without the illness that should attend it - Lady Macbeth
Unsex me here - Lady Macbeth
And fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty - Lady Macbeth
You wait on natures mischief. Come thick night - Lady Macbeth
Look like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it. - Lady Macbeth
Act 1 Scene 7
Macbeth questions weather he should kill Duncan or not but Lady Macbeth encourages him to do it
He’s here in double trust - Macbeth
Who should against his murderer shut the door, not bear the knife myself. Macbeth
Will plead like angels, trumpet - tongued against the deep damnation of his taking off. - Macbeth
i have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition - Macbeth
I would while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and dashed the brains out had i so sworn - Lady Macbeth
But screw your courage to the sticking place - Lady Macbeth
Act 2 Scene 1
Banquo and Fleance encounter Macbeth who is about to kill Duncan. Macbeth begins to hallucinate a dagger
Is this a dagger i see before me - Macbeth
A dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat oppressed brain? - Macbeth
Wicked dreams abuse the curtained sleep - Macbeth
Act 2 Scene 2
Duncan has been killed and Macbeth begins to regret what he has done
Had he not resembled my father as he slept, i would have done it. Lady Macbeth
I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more: Macbeth does murder sleep - Macbeth
Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? Macbeth
A little water clears us of this deed. - Lady Macbeth
Act 2 Scene 3
Duncan’s body is discovered and Macbeth panicks and kills Duncan’s servants
Here lay Duncan, his silver skin laced with his golden blood - Macbeth
Act 3 Scene 1
Banquo begins to get suspicious so Macbeth arranges to kill him
Our fears in Banquo stick deep, and in his royalty of nature reigns that which would be feared. - Macbeth
I could with barefaced power sweep him from my sight and bid my will avouch it - Macbeth
Act 3 Scene 2 him
Macbeth assures his wife that he will fix everything as she is feeling uneasy
And make our faces vizards to our hearts - Macbeth
O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife! - Macbeth
Act 3 Scene 4 The ghost of Banquo appears
Never shake thy gory locks at me! - Banquo
Act 3 Scene 5
The witches and Hecate meet and prepare to meet Macbeth again
And you all know, security is mortals chiefest enemy - Hecate
Act 4 Scene 3
Macduff and Malcolm meet they discuss the overthrow of Macbeth
This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, was once thought honest - Malcolm
Not in the legions of horrid hells can come a devil more damned in evils to top Macbeth - Macduff
Act 5 Scene 1
Lady Macbeth is sleep walking and going crazy as she talks about all the murders
Out damned spot! Out, I say! - Lady Macbeth
Here’s the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand - Lady Macbeth
