Macbeth Quotes Flashcards

(54 cards)

1
Q

(Macbeth)

“So fair and foul…

A

A day I have not seen”

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2
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(About Macbeth) “For brave Macbeth…

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…well he deserves that name”

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3
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(About Macbeth) “Disdaining…

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…fortune”

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4
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(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…

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…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
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(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
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(Macbeth)

“Is this a dagger…

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…which I see before me”

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11
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(Macbeth)

“O full of scorpions…

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…is my mind dear wife”

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12
Q

(Macbeth)

“Never shake thy…

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…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…

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…best not know myself”

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15
Q

(Macbeth)

“We will proceed…

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…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…

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…that fears a painted devil”

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19
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(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
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(Lady M)

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

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…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…

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…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…

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…yet I shame to wear a heart so white”

25
(Lady M) | “Yet who would’ve thought the old man…
…to have so much blood in him?”
26
(Witches) | “Fair is foul…
…and foul is fair”
27
(Witches) | “When will we three meet again…
…in thunder, lightening or in rain”
28
(Witches) | “All hail Macbeth..
..who shall be King hereafter”
29
(Witches) | “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth!…
…beware Macduff”
30
(Witches) | “Something wicked…
…this way comes”
31
(Witches) | “Macbeth shall never be vanquished…
…until great birnham wood to high dunsinane hill shall come against him”
32
(Duncan) | “Valiant cousin…
…worthy gentleman”
33
(Duncan) | “This Castle hath a pleasant seat;…
…the air nimbly and sweetly recommends itself”
34
(About Duncan) | “Silver Skin lac’d with…
…his golden blood”
35
(Duncan) | “What he hath lost…
…Nobel Macbeth hath won”
36
(Duncan) | “There’s no art to…
…find the minds construction in the face”
37
(Duncan) | “He was a gentleman…
…on whom I built absolute trust”
38
(Duncan) | “I have begun to plant thee…
…and make thee full growing”
39
(About Duncan) | “Macbeth doth murder sleep…
…the innocent sleep”
40
(Banquo) | “These instruments of darkness…
…tell us truths, win us in honest trifles to betray in deepest consequence”
41
(Banquo) | “I fear thou played…
…most foully for it”
42
(Banquo) | “Can the devil…
…speak true?”
43
(Banquo) | “Myself should be the roots…
… and father of many kings”
44
(About Banquo) | “Noble Banquo…
…let me enfold thee and hold thee to my heart”
45
(About Banquo) | “With twenty mortal…
…murders on his crown”
46
(About Banquo) | “Thy bones are marrowless…
…thy blood is cold”
47
(About Banquo) | “Take any shape but that…
…and my nerves shall never tremble
48
(Macduff) | “Most sacrilegious murder hath..
…broken the Lords anointed temple”
49
(Macduff) | “Stole thence the…
…life of the building”
50
(Macduff) | “Bleed, bleed…
…poor country”
51
(Macduff) | “Great tyranny lay…
…thou thy basis sure”
52
(Macduff) | “Tyrant…
…show thy face!”
53
(Macduff) | “I cannot strike at wretched kerns…
…whose arms are hired to bear thy staves”
54
(Macduff) | “Macduff was from his mothers womb…
…untimely ripped”