Macbeth Quotations Flashcards
(42 cards)
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A1S1 - the witches assemble
A
- thunder and lightning
- meet with Macbeth
- fair is foul, and foul is fair
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A1S2 - Captain’s speech
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- brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name
- smok’d with bloody execution
- unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps
- doubly redoubled
3
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A1S2 - Duncan responds to the Captain’s speech
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- valiant cousin, worthy gentleman
- they smack of honour both
- with his former title greet Macbeth
- noble Macbeth
4
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A1S3 - the witches assemble again
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- drain him dry as hay
- tempest-toss’d
5
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A1S3 - the witches appear to Macbeth and Banquo
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- so foul and fair a day
- look not like th’inhabitants o’th’earth
- shalt be king hereafter
- thou shalt get kings, though thou be none
6
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A1S3 - Macbeth becomes Thane of Cawdor
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- how our partner’s rapt
- chance may crown me without my stir
- come what come may
7
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A1S4 - Duncan reflects on the Thane of Cawdor transition
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- there’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face
- absolute trust
- worthiest cousin
- I have begun to plant thee and will labour to make thee full of growing
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A1S4 - Macbeth considers his obstacles
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- that is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap
- stars, hide your fires
- let not light see my black and deep desires
- the eye wink at the hand
9
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A1S5 - Lady Macbeth reads Macbeth’s letter
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- dearest partner of greatness
- too full o’th’milk of human kindness
- not without ambition, but without the illness that should attend it
- pour my spirits in thine ear
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A1S5 - Lady Macbeth calls on the supernatural
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- raven himself is hoarse
- come, ye spirits
- unsex me here
- fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty
- take my milk for gall
- dunnest smoke of hell
11
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A1S5 - Macbeth returns to Inverness
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- look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t
- leave all the rest to me
12
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A1S6 - Lady Macbeth welcomes Duncan
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- honour’d hostess
- in every point twice done and then done double
13
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A1S7 - Macbeth reconsiders murdering Duncan
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- we’d jump the life to come
- his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-tongu’d
- I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other
14
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A1S7 - Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to go through with the murder
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- we will proceed no further
- when you durst do it, then you were a man
- dash’d the brains out
- screw your courage to the sticking-place
15
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A2S1 - Macbeth reflects on the murder he is about to commit
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- is this a dagger
- come, let me clutch thee
- fatal vision
- proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain
16
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A2S2 - Macbeth instantly regrets the murder of Duncan
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- Macbeth doth murder sleep
- Macbeth shall sleep no more
- infirm of purpose!
- will all great Neptune’s oceans wash this blood clean from my hands?
- I shame to wear a heart so white
- wake Duncan with thy knocking: I would thou couldst
17
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A2S3 - the lords react to Duncan’s death
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- O, horror, horror, horror
- new Gorgon
- ring the alarum bell! Murder and treason!
- silver skin lac’d with golden blood
18
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A2S3 - Malcolm and Donalbain run away
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- there’s daggers in men’s smiles
19
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A2S4 - Ross discusses affairs with an Old Man
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- a falcon […] was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed
- [Duncan’s horses] eat each other
- {A2S3} the Earth was feverous and did shake
20
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A3S1 - Banquo hides his suspicion from Macbeth
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- I fear thou played’st most foully for’t
- fail not our feast
21
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A3S1 - Macbeth reflects on the threat posed by Banquo
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- fruitless crown
- barren sceptre
- for Banquo’s issue have I fil’d my mind
22
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A3S1 - Macbeth briefs the murderers
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23
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A3S2 - Macbeth and Lady Macbeth discuss their situation
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- nought’s had, all’s spent
- we have scotch’d the stake, not kill’d it
- terrible dreams that shake us nightly
- O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!
24
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A3S3 - Banquo is murdered
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- O, treachery!
- fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
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A3S4 - Macbeth hears from the first murderer as the banquet begins
* thou art the best o'th'cut-throats
* cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd
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A3S4 - the Ghost of Banquo appears to Macbeth
* never shake thy gory locks at me!
* avaunt and quit my sight!
* blood will have blood
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A3S5 - the witches meet with Hecate
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A3S6 - Lennox discusses with another Lord
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A4S1 - the witches prepare to meet Macbeth
* *thunder*
* double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble
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A4S1 - Macbeth returns to the witches
* by the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes
* beware Macduff
* none of woman born shall harm Macbeth
* Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him
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A4S2 - Macduff's family is visited and murdered at Fife
* young fry of treachery
* he has killed me, mother
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A4S3 - Malcolm tests Macduff
* I should pour the sweet milk of concord into hell
* O Scotland, Scotland!
* child of integrity
33
A4S3 - Macduff is told of his family's murder
* did you say all? Oh hell-kite! All?
* dispute it like a man
* I must also feel it as a man
34
A5S1 - Lady Macbeth is witnessed sleepwalking
* washing her hands
* out, damned spot!
* Hell is murky
* all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand
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A5S2 - the army approaches Inverness
* the English power is near
* those he commands, move only in command, nothing in love
* dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds
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A5S3 - Macbeth prepares for battle
* Seyton! - I am sick at heart
* give me mine armour
* cure her of that
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A5S4 - Birnam Wood marches on Dunsinane Hill
* confident tyrant
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A5S5 - Macbeth learns of Lady Macbeth's death
* she should have died hereafter
* tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow
* out, out, brief candle, life's but a walking shadow
* it is a tale told by an idiot […] signifying nothing
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A5S6 - the battle begins
* *alarums continued*
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A5S7 - Macbeth kills Young Siward as the battle progresses
* abhorred tyrant
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A5S8 - Macbeth encounters Macduff
* turn, hell-hound, turn
* my soul is too much charg'd with blood of thine already
* thou bloodier villain than terms can give thee out
* from his mother's womb, untimely ripp'd
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A5S9 - Malcolm is proclaimed King
* *enter Macduff, with Macbeth's head*
* th'usurper's cursed head
* henceforth be earls
* dead butcher
* fiend-like queen
