Macbeth quotations Flashcards
(30 cards)
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
The three witches. Act 1 Scene 1
“What bloody man is that?”
King Duncan (Act 1 Scene 2)
To the captian
“If you can look into the seeds of time,
And say which grain will grow and which will not.”
Banquo (Act 1 Scene 3)
during the witches prophecy
“Or have we eaten on the insane root
That takes the reason prisoner?”
Banquo (Act 1 Scene 3)
after the witches disappear
“What! can the devil speak true?”
Banquo (Act 1 Scene 3)
when macbeth becomes thane of cawdor
“Present fears Are less than horrible imaginings.”
King Duncan (Act 1 Scene 4)
“There’s daggers in men’s smiles”
Donalbain (Act 2 Scene 3)
When him and malcolm decide they have to leave so they do not get killed
“By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.”
Second Witch (Act 4 Scene 1)
About Macbeth coming to see them for answers
“Macbeth shall never vanquished be until
Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill
Shall come against him.”
Third apparition (Act 4 Scene 1)
The prophecy to Macbeth
“When our actions do not,
Our fears do make us traitors.”
Lady Macduff (Act 4 Scene 2)
When her husband leaves her “out of fear”
“Now does he feel his title
Hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.”
Angus (Act 5 Scene 2)
after Lady Macbeths episode. Angus when they are going to Macbeths castle, talking about how he does not deserve to be king. before macbeth flaunting in his castle.
“Tongue nor heart
Cannot conceive nor name thee!”
Macduff (Act 2 Scene 3)
After coversation with porter and Macbeth kills Duncan. Macduff discovering Duncans body.
“The patient
Must minister to himself.”
Doctor (Act 5 Scene 3)
Lady Macbeth needs a minister not a dr
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making the green one red.”
Macbeth (Act 2 Scene 2)
“Blood will have blood.”
Macbeth (Act 3 Scene 4)
“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day
To the last syllable of recorded time,
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more: it is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.”
Macbeth (Act 5 Scene 5)
“Yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.”
Lady Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 5)
“Come you spirits, That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.”
Lady Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 5)
“O, never
Shall sun that morrow see!
Your face, my thane, is as a book where men
May read strange matters. To beguile the time,
Look like the time. Bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue. Look like th’ innocent flower,
But be the serpent under ‘t. He that’s coming
Must be provide for: and you shall put
This night’s great business into my dispatch,
Which shall to all our nights and days to come
Give solely sovereign sway and masterdom.”
Lady Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 5)
“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 plucked my nipple from his boneless gums And dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.”
Lady Macbeth (Act 1, Scene 7)
“I laid their daggers ready;
He could not miss ‘em. Had he not resembled
My father as he slept, I had done’t.”
Lady Macbeth (Act 2, Scene 2)
“Out! damned spot! One, two, — why, then ‘tis time to do’t. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, fie, a soldier and afeard? What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account? – Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him.”
Lady Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 1)
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
Lady Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 1)
“What’s done cannot be undone.”
Lady Macbeth (Act 5, Scene 1)
