Macbeth Quotes Flashcards

1
Q

(Macbeth)

“So fair and foul…

A

A day I have not seen”

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2
Q

(About Macbeth) “For brave Macbeth…

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…well he deserves that name”

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3
Q

(About Macbeth) “Disdaining…

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…fortune”

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4
Q

(About Macbeth)

“His brandished steel…

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…which smoked with bloody execution”

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5
Q

(Macbeth)

“Stars hide your fires…

A

…let not light see my dark and deep desires”

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6
Q

(Macbeth)

“I have no spur to prick my intent…

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…but only vaulting ambition which overleaps itself and falls on the other”

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7
Q

(Macbeth)

“Will all great Neptune’s oceans…

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….wash this blood clean from my hands”

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8
Q

(Macbeth)

“I am in blood steeped so far that…

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…should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go over”

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9
Q

(Macbeth)

“False face must hide…

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…what false heart doth know”

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10
Q

(Macbeth)

“Is this a dagger…

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…which I see before me”

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11
Q

(Macbeth)

“O full of scorpions…

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…is my mind dear wife”

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12
Q

(Macbeth)

“Never shake thy…

A

…gory locks at me!”

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13
Q

(Macbeth)

“The time has been that when the brains were…

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…out the man would die!”

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14
Q

(Macbeth)

“To know my deed ‘twere…

A

…best not know myself”

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15
Q

(Macbeth)

“We will proceed…

A

…no further in this business”

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16
Q

(Lady M)

“Come you spirits, that tend on mortal…

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…grounds, unsex me here”

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17
Q

(Lady M)

“Look like the innocent flower….

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…but be the serpent under’t”

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18
Q

(Lady M)

“Tis the eye of childhood…

A

…that fears a painted devil”

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19
Q

(Lady M)

“I do fear thy nature…

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…tis too full o’ the milk of human kindness”

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20
Q

(Lady M)

“Here’s the smell of blood still…

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….all the perfumes in Arabia will not sweeten this hand”

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21
Q

(Lady M)

“I would have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums and…

A

…dashed the brains out, had i so sworn as you have done to this”

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22
Q

(Lady M)

“What’s done…

A

…cannot be undone”

23
Q

(Lady M)

“These deeds must not be thought after

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…these ways, it will make us mad”

24
Q

(Lady M)

“My hands are of your colour…

A

…yet I shame to wear a heart so white”

25
Q

(Lady M)

“Yet who would’ve thought the old man…

A

…to have so much blood in him?”

26
Q

(Witches)

“Fair is foul…

A

…and foul is fair”

27
Q

(Witches)

“When will we three meet again…

A

…in thunder, lightening or in rain”

28
Q

(Witches)

“All hail Macbeth..

A

..who shall be King hereafter”

29
Q

(Witches)

“Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!…

A

…beware Macduff”

30
Q

(Witches)

“Something wicked…

A

…this way comes”

31
Q

(Witches)

“Macbeth shall never be vanquished…

A

…until great birnham wood to high dunsinane hill shall come against him”

32
Q

(Duncan)

“Valiant cousin…

A

…worthy gentleman”

33
Q

(Duncan)

“This Castle hath a pleasant seat;…

A

…the air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself”

34
Q

(About Duncan)

“Silver Skin lac’d with…

A

…his golden blood”

35
Q

(Duncan)

“What he hath lost…

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…Nobel Macbeth hath won”

36
Q

(Duncan)

“There’s no art to…

A

…find the minds construction in the face”

37
Q

(Duncan)

“He was a gentleman…

A

…on whom I built absolute trust”

38
Q

(Duncan)

“I have begun to plant thee…

A

…and make thee full growing”

39
Q

(About Duncan)

“Macbeth doth murder sleep…

A

…the innocent sleep”

40
Q

(Banquo)

“These instruments of darkness…

A

…tell us truths, win us in honest trifles to betray in deepest consequence”

41
Q

(Banquo)

“I fear thou played…

A

…most foully for it”

42
Q

(Banquo)

“Can the devil…

A

…speak true?”

43
Q

(Banquo)

“Myself should be the roots…

A

… and father of many kings”

44
Q

(About Banquo)

“Noble Banquo…

A

…let me enfold thee and hold thee to my heart”

45
Q

(About Banquo)

“With twenty mortal…

A

…murders on his crown”

46
Q

(About Banquo)

“Thy bones are marrowless…

A

…thy blood is cold”

47
Q

(About Banquo)

“Take any shape but that…

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…and my nerves shall never tremble

48
Q

(Macduff)

“Most sacrilegious murder hath..

A

…broken the Lords anointed temple”

49
Q

(Macduff)

“Stole thence the…

A

…life of the building”

50
Q

(Macduff)

“Bleed, bleed…

A

…poor country”

51
Q

(Macduff)

“Great tyranny lay…

A

…thou thy basis sure”

52
Q

(Macduff)

“Tyrant…

A

…show thy face!”

53
Q

(Macduff)

“I cannot strike at wretched kerns…

A

…whose arms are hired to bear thy staves”

54
Q

(Macduff)

“Macduff was from his mothers womb…

A

…untimely ripped”