Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

What does Macbeth deserve according to the quote in Act 1, Scene 2?

Answer 1

For brave Macbeth – well he deserves that name.

Question 2

How does Macbeth kill the enemy in Act 1, Scene 2?

Answer 2

He unseamed him from the nave to th’ chops.

Question 3

What does Macbeth wish for in Act 1, Scene 4?

Answer 3

Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires.

Question 4

What does Macbeth say about his ambition in Act 1, Scene 7?

Answer 4

I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself.

Question 5

What question does Macbeth ask in Act 2, Scene 1?

Answer 5

Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?

Question 6

What does Macbeth struggle to say in Act 2, Scene 2?

Answer 6

But wherefore could not I pronounce ‘Amen’?

Question 7

What does Macbeth wonder about in Act 2, Scene 2?

Answer 7

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

Question 8

How does Macbeth describe his wounds in Act 2, Scene 3?

Answer 8

His gashed stabs looked like a breach in nature.

Question 9

What does Macbeth say about his crown in Act 3, Scene 1?

Answer 9

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren scepter in my grip.

Question 10

What does Macbeth express about his mind in Act 3, Scene 2?

Answer 10

Full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!

Question 11

What does Macbeth tell Lady Macbeth in Act 3, Scene 2?

Answer 11

Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck.

Question 12

What does Macbeth say to the ghost in Act 3, Scene 4?

Answer 12

Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me.

Question 13

What does Macbeth declare in Act 4, Scene 1?

Answer 13

The very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand.

Question 14

What does Macbeth say about life in Act 5, Scene 5?

Answer 14

Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow.

Question 15

What does Macbeth question in Act 5, Scene 8?

Answer 15

Why should I play the Roman fool and die on mine own sword?

Question 16

What does Macduff call Macbeth in Act 5, Scene 8?

Answer 16

Turn, hellhound, turn!

Question 17

How does Malcolm describe Macbeth and Lady Macbeth in Act 5, Scene 8?

Answer 17

This dead butcher and his fiendlike queen.

Question 18

What does Macbeth say about Banquo’s descendants in Act 3, Scene 1?

Answer 18

The seed of Banquo kings!

Question 19

What does Macbeth mean by ‘blood will have blood’ in Act 3, Scene 4?

Answer 19

Blood will have blood.

Question 20

What does Duncan say about Macbeth’s reward in Act 1, Scene 2?

Answer 20

What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.

Question 21

What do the witches say to Macbeth in Act 1, Scene 3?

Answer 21

Stay, you imperfect speakers.

Question 22

What does Banquo say to Macbeth in Act 2, Scene 1?

Answer 22

This diamond greets your wife.

Question 23

What does Macbeth vow in Act 5, Scene 3?

Answer 23

I’ll fight till from my bones my flesh be hacked.

Question 24

What does Macbeth request in Act 5, Scene 3?

Answer 24

Give me mine armour.

Question 25

How does Lady Macbeth refer to Macbeth in Act 1, Scene 5?

Answer 25

My dearest partner of greatness.

Question 26

What does Lady Macbeth fear in Act 1, Scene 5?

Answer 26

I fear thy nature; It is too full o’th’milk of human kindness.

Question 27

What does Lady Macbeth ask to be in Act 1, Scene 5?

Answer 27

Unsex me here.

Question 28

What does Lady Macbeth wish for in Act 1, Scene 5?

Answer 28

Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall.

Question 29

What does Lady Macbeth advise in Act 1, Scene 5?

Answer 29

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

Question 30

What does Lady Macbeth say about water in Act 2, Scene 2?

Answer 30

A little water clears us of this deed.

Question 31

What does Lady Macbeth say in Act 3, Scene 2?

Answer 31

What’s done is done.

Question 32

What does Lady Macbeth declare in Act 5, Scene 1?

Answer 32

What’s done cannot be undone.

Question 33

What does Lady Macbeth exclaim in Act 5, Scene 1?

Answer 33

Out, damned spot! Out, I say!

Question 34

What does Seyton inform Macbeth in Act 5, Scene 5?

Answer 34

The queen, my lord, is dead.

Question 35

How does Malcolm describe Macbeth in Act 5, Scene 8?

Answer 35

This dead butcher and his fiendlike queen.

Question 36

What does Banquo wish to maintain in Act 2, Scene 1?

Answer 36

Still keep my bosom franchised and allegiance clear.

Question 37

What does Banquo suspect in Act 3, Scene 1?

Answer 37

I fear thou played’st most foully for’t.

Question 38

What do the instruments of darkness do according to Banquo in Act 1, Scene 3?

Answer 38

To win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths.

Question 39

How does Duncan refer to Banquo in Act 1, Scene 4?

Answer 39

Noble Banquo.

Question 40

What does Banquo dream about in Act 2, Scene 1?

Answer 40

I dream’d last night of the three weird sisters.

Question 41

What does Macbeth say about his fears of Banquo in Act 3, Scene 1?

Answer 41

Our fears in Banquo stick deep.

Question 42

What does Macduff express about the country in Act 4, Scene 3?

Answer 42

Bleed, bleed, poor country!

Question 43

How does Macduff describe the nation in Act 4, Scene 3?

Answer 43

O nation miserable with an untitled tyrant, bloody-scepter’d.

Question 44

What does Macduff say about the murder in Act 2, Scene 3?

Answer 44

Most sacrilegious murder hath broke ope the Lord’s anointed temple.

Question 45

What does Macduff say about the impact of news on women in Act 2, Scene 3?

Answer 45

The repetition, in a woman’s ear, would murder as it fell.

Question 46

What does Macduff say about governance in Act 4, Scene 3?

Answer 46

Fit to govern? No, not to live.

Question 47

What does Macduff lament in Act 4, Scene 3?

Answer 47

O hell kite! .. all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop?

Question 48

What do the witches say in Act 1, Scene 1?

Answer 48

Fair is foul and foul is fair.

Question 49

What do the witches say about the battle in Act 1, Scene 1?

Answer 49

When the battle’s lost and won.

Question 50

What do the witches say about the air in Act 1, Scene 1?

Answer 50

Hover through the fog and filthy air.

Question 51

What does Banquo call the witches in Act 1, Scene 3?

Answer 51

Instruments of darkness.

Question 52

What do the witches ask in Act 1, Scene 1?

Answer 52

When shall we three meet again? In thunder, lightning, or in rain?

Question 53

What does Lady Macbeth say about her speech in Act 1, Scene 5?

Answer 53

Valour of my tongue.

Question 54

What does Malcolm say about the time in Act 5, Scene 8?

Answer 54

Planted newly with the time.

Question 55

What does Malcolm say about nature in Act 4, Scene 3?

Answer 55

A good and virtuous nature may recoil in an imperial charge.

Question 56

What does Malcolm say about Scotland in Act 4, Scene 3?

Answer 56

It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash is added to her wounds.

Question 57

What does Malcolm say about appeasing an angry god in Act 4, Scene 3?

Answer 57

Offer up a weak, poor, innocent lamb t’appease an angry god.

Question 58

What does Duncan say about finding the mind's construction in Act 1, Scene 4?

Answer 58

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

Question 59

What does Duncan say about honor in Act 1, Scene 4?

Answer 59

Honour, like stars, shall shine on all deservers.

Question 60

What does Duncan say about trust in Act 1, Scene 4?

Answer 60

He was a gentleman on whom I built an absolute trust.

Question 61

What does Duncan say about planting in Act 1, Scene 4?

Answer 61

I have begun to plant thee and will labour to make thee full of growing.

Question 62

What does Duncan say about joy and sorrow in Act 1, Scene 4?

Answer 62

My plenteous joys … seek to hide themselves in drops of sorrow.

Question 63

What does Ross say in Act 1, Scene 2?

Answer 63

God save the king … great king.

Question 64

What does Macbeth say about tears in Act 1, Scene 7?

Answer 64

Tears shall drown the wind.

Question 65

What does the setting describe in Act 2, Scene 4?

Answer 65

Dark night strangles the travelling lamp.

Question 66

What does the setting describe about the falcon in Act 2, Scene 4?

Answer 66

A falcon … was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed.