Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

fate: macbeth - 4.1 - thumbs, comes

Answer 1

by the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes

Question 2

fate: banquo - 1.3 - instruments

Answer 2

the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us honest trifles, to betray’s in deepest consequences

Question 3

fate: macduff - 5.7 - tyrant

Answer 3

tyrant, show your face… let me find him, fortune!

Question 4

fate: witch 3 - 1.3 - hail

Answer 4

“All hail, Macbeth! That shalt be king hereafter!”

Question 5

fate: Lady Macbeth - 1.5 - promised

Answer 5

“what thou art promised”

Question 6

fate: hecate - 3.5 - wisdom

Answer 6

“He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes ‘bove wisdom, grace and fear;”

Question 7

fate: Macbeth - 1.3 - chance

Answer 7

“If chance will have me king, why, Chance may crown me, without my stir”

Question 8

fate: banquo - 3.1 - foully

Answer 8

“Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, As the weird women promised, and i fear Thou play’dst most foully for it:”

Question 9

fate: Macbeth - 3.1 - champion

Answer 9

“rather than so, come fate into the list, And champion me to the utterance! Who’s there?”

Question 10

fate: hecate - 3.5 - destiny

Answer 10

“Meet me I ‘the morning : thither he Will come to know his destiny.”

Question 11

guilt: lady macbeth - 2.2 - confounds

Answer 11

“The attempt and not the deed confounds us.”

Question 12

guilt: Lady Macbeth - 5.1 - damned spot

Answer 12

“Out damned spot; out I say… Here’s the smell of the blood still”

Question 13

guilt: Lady Macbeth - 2.2 - Neptune’s

Answer 13

“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?”

Question 14

guilt: Macbeth - 2.4 - bell

Answer 14

“The bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell that summons thee to heaven or to hell.”

Question 15

guilt: Macbeth - 2.2 - murder sleep

Answer 15

“Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep’”

Question 16

guilt: macbeth - 3.4 - blood

Answer 16

“blood must have blood.”

Question 17

guilt: doctor - 5.1 - unatural

Answer 17

“Unnatural deeds / Do breed unnatural troubles”

Question 18

guilt: macbeth - 2.2 - afraid

Answer 18

“im afraid to think what I have done;”

Question 19

guilt: lady macbeth - 2.2 - clears

Answer 19

“a little water clears us from this deed”

Question 20

guilt: macbeth - 3.4 - marrowless

Answer 20

“Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold Thou hast no speculation in those eyes”

Question 21

guilt: lady macbeth - 5.1 - knocking

Answer 21

“to bed to bed there’s knocking at the gate, come, come, come give me your hand what’s done cannot be undone

Question 22

guilt: macbeth - 5.5 - candle

Answer 22

“Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing”

Question 23

guilt: macbeth - 5.5 - estate

Answer 23

“Wish the entire estate o’ the world were now undone”

Question 24

guilt: macbeth - 5.5 - tomorrow

Answer 24

“Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow”

Question 25

guilt: macbeth - 1.7 - proceed

Answer 25

"We shall proceed no further in this business"

Question 26

ambition: macbeth - 1.4 - desires

Answer 26

“Stars, hide your fires; / let not light see my black and deep desires"

Question 27

ambition: lady macbeth - 2.2 - drunk

Answer 27

“That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold, what hath quenched them hath given me fire.”

Question 28

ambition: lady macbeth - 1.5 - flower

Answer 28

“Look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t.”

Question 29

ambition: macbeth - 1.7 - spur

Answer 29

“I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other”

Question 30

ambition: macbeth - 3.2 - great bond

Answer 30

“And with thy bloody and invisible hand Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond…”

Question 31

ambition: macduff - 4.3 - bleed

Answer 31

“Bleed, bleed, poor country. “Great tyranny, lay thou thy basis sure”

Question 32

ambition: macduff - 5.7 - fortune

Answer 32

“Tyrant, show your face...let me find him, Fortune!"

Question 33

ambition: macduff - 5.8 - charm

Answer 33

“Despair thy charm, And let the angel whom thou still hast served”

Question 34

ambition: macbeth - 3.1 - safely thus

Answer 34

“To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus”

Question 35

ambition: lady macbeth - 1.5 - direst

Answer 35

“fill me / direst cruelty”

Question 36

ambition: lady macbeth - 5.5 - taste

Answer 36

“almost forgot the taste of fear”

Question 37

ambition: lady macbeth - 1.5 - illness

Answer 37

“Thou wouldst be great Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it"

Question 38

ambition: macbeth - 1.4 - Cumberland

Answer 38

“The prince of Cumberland! That is a step on which I must fall down, or else o'erleap, for in my way it lies"

Question 39

ambition: malcolm - 5.11 - butcher

Answer 39

“This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen”

Question 40

ambition: macbeth - 2.1 - heaven

Answer 40

"I go, and it is done; the bell invites me … that summons thee to heaven or to hell”

Question 41

ambition: macbeth - 5.8 - kiss

Answer 41

“I will not yield, to kiss the ground before young Malcolm’s feet.”

Question 42

gender: donalbain - 2.3 - smiles

Answer 42

“There are daggers in men’s smiles"

Question 43

gender: lady macbeth - 1.7 - durst

Answer 43

“When you durst do it, then you were a man”

Question 44

gender: Lady Macbeth - 1.5 - spirits

Answer 44

“Come, you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty. Make thick my blood.”

Question 45

gender: macduff - 2.3 - gentle

Answer 45

"O gentle lady, 'Tis not for you to hear what I can speak. The repetition in a woman's ear Would murder as it fell."

Question 46

gender: macduff - 4.3 - dispute

Answer 46

“Dispute it like a man”. “I shall do so, / But I must also feel it as a man”

Question 47

gender: ross - 5.8 - like a man

Answer 47

"But like a man he died"

Question 48

gender: lady macbeth - 1.5 - gall

Answer 48

“come to my woman's breasts, and take my milk for gall'”

Question 49

gender: macbeth - 1.7 - dare

Answer 49

"I dare do all that may become a man, who dares do more is none"

Question 50

gender: Malcolm - 4.3 - dispute it

Answer 50

"dispute it like a man"

Question 51

gender: lady macbeth - 1.5 - milk

Answer 51

“Yet do I fear thy nature. It is too full o’th’ milk of human kindness”

Question 52

supernatural: witches - 1.1 - fair

Answer 52

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Hover through the fog and filthy air.”

Question 53

supernatural: macbeth - 4.1 - hags

Answer 53

“How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!”

Question 54

supernatural: macbeth - 2.1 - false creation

Answer 54

“Or art thou but a dagger of the mind, a false creation, proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?”

Question 55

supernatural: banquo - 1.3 - trifles

Answer 55

“the instruments of darkness tell us truths, win us with honest trifles, to betray's in deepest consequence”

Question 56

supernatural: macbeth - 1.7 - doth know

Answer 56

"false face must hide what the false heart doth know”

Question 57

supernatural: macbeth - 3.4 - host

Answer 57

"...and play the humble host"

Question 58

supernatural: macbeth - 2.1 - dagger

Answer 58

“is this a dagger which I see before me?”

Question 59

supernatural: macduff - 2.3 - woman's ear

Answer 59

"Tis not for you to hear what I can speak. The repetition in a woman's ear would murder as it fell."

Question 60

supernatural: malcolm - 4.3 - angels

Answer 60

"Angels are bright still, but the brightest fell."

Question 61

supernatural: malcolm - 4.3 - brows

Answer 61

“All things foul would wear the brows of grace, yet grace must still look so.”