Macbeth Quotes Flashcards

Question

Macbeth talking about stars and light

Answer 1

Aside) ‘Stars, hide your fires, | Let light not see my black and deep desires’ (Macbeth)

Answer 2

yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way’ (Lady Macbeth)

Answer 3

‘thou wouldst be great; Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it’ (Lady Macbeth)

Answer 4

I may pour my spirits in thine ear’ (Lady Macbeth)

Answer 5

The raven himself is hoarse That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan Under my battlements’ (Lady Macbeth)

Answer 6

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!’ (Lady Macbeth)

Answer 7

Come to my woman's breasts, | And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers’ (Lady Macbeth)

Answer 8

O, never | Shall sun that morrow see!’ (Lady Macbeth)

Answer 9

look like the innocent flower, | But be the serpent under't’ (Lady Macbeth)

Answer 10

If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well | It were done quickly’ (Macbeth)

Answer 11

we but teach Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return To plague the inventor’ (Macbeth)

Answer 12

our poison'd chalice | To our own lips’ (Macbeth)

Answer 13

He's here in double trust; First, as I am his kinsman and his subject, Strong both against the deed; then, as his host, Who should against his murderer shut the door, Not bear the knife myself’ (Macbeth)

Answer 14

I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on the other.’ (Macbeth)

Answer 15

We will proceed no further in this business’ (Macbeth)

Answer 16

Was the hope drunk | Wherein you dress'd yourself?’ (Lady Macbeth)

Answer 17

I dare do all that may become a man; | Who dares do more is none.’ (Macbeth)

Answer 18

When you durst do it, then you were a man; And, to be more than what you were, you would Be so much more the man.’ (Lady Macbeth)

Answer 19

I have given suck, and know How tender 'tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck'd my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash'd the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this’ (Lady Macbeth)

Answer 20

If we should fail?’ (Macbeth) ‘We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we'll not fail’ (Lady Macbeth)

Answer 21

I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat. Away, and mock the time with fairest show: False face must hide what the false heart doth know’ (Macbeth)

Answer 22

Is this a dagger which I see before me, | The handle toward my hand?’ (Macbeth)

Answer 23

A bell rings ‘I go, and it is done; the bell invites me. Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell.’ (Macbeth)

Answer 24

Had he not resembled | My father as he slept, I had done't.’ (Lady Macbeth)

Answer 25

I had most need of blessing, and 'Amen' | Stuck in my throat.’ (Macbeth)

Answer 26

'Sleep no more! | Macbeth does murder sleep' (Macbeth)

Answer 27

Macbeth shall sleep no more.' (Macbeth)

Answer 28

Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood | Clean from my hand?’ (Macbeth)

Answer 29

My hands are of your colour; but I shame | To wear a heart so white.’ (Lady Macbeth)

Answer 30

Knocking within | ‘Wake Duncan with thy knocking! I would thou couldst!’ (Macbeth)

Macbeth Quotes Flashcards

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