Macbeth Quotes Flashcards
(25 cards)
Act 1 Scene 1
The witches
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”
Act 1 Scene 2
Captain
“As cannons over-charged with double cracks”
Act 1 Scene 5
Lady Macbeth
Innocence
“Too full of the milk of human kindness”
Act 1 Scene 5
Lady Macbeth
Gender
Supernatural
“Come, you spirits … unsex me here”
Act 1 Scene 5
Lady Macbeth
Ambition
“Look like the innocent flower … but be the serpent under’t”
Act 1 Scene 7
Lady Macbeth
“Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums … and dashed the brains out”
Act 2 Scene 2
Macbeth
Guilt
“Is this a dagger I see before me”
Act 2 Scene 2
Macbeth
Consequence
“But wherefore could not pronounce amen? … I had most need of blessing, and Amen … Stuck in my throat”
Act 2 Scene 2
Lady Macbeth
“A little water clears us of this deed”
Act 2 Scene 4
Old Man
“A falcon, towering in her pride of place … Was by a mousing owl hawked at, and killed”
Act 3 Scene 2
Lady Macbeth
“Sleek o’er your rugged looks … be bright and jovial among your guests tonight”
Act 3 Scene 4
Macbeth
Consequence
“Whole as the marble, founded as the rock … but now I am cabined, cribbed, confined”
Act 3 Scene 4
Macbeth
Fleance escaping
“There the grown serpent lies: the worm, that’s fled … Hath nature in time will venom breed”
Act 3 Scene 4
Macbeth
Delusion
“Prithee, see there! Behold! Look! Lo! How say you? … Why - what care I?”
Act 3 Scene 5
Hecate
“This night I’ll spend … unto a dismal and a fatal end”
Act 4 Scene 1
Witches
“Finger of birth-strangled babe … Ditch-delivered by a drab”
Act 4 Scene 1
Macbeth
Unholy
“Though you untie the winds and let them fight … against the churches”
Act 4 Scene 1
Macbeth
Insanity
“The live, Macduff. What need I fear of thee? … But yet I’ll make assurance double sure … And take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live”
Act 4 Scene 3
Ross
“Your wife and babes … Savagely slaughtered”
Act 4 Scene 3
Malcom
“Let grief … Convert anger. Blunt not the heart, enrage it”
Act 5 Scene 1
Lady Macbeth
“Out, damned spot! … Out I say!”
Act 5 Scene 3
Macbeth
“The mind I sway by and the heart I bear … Shall never sag with doubt nor shake with fear”
Act 5 Scene 5
Macbeth
“Life’s but a walking shadow”
Act 5 Scene 5
Macbeth
” A poor player … That struts and frets his hour upon the stage”
