Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

Battle

Answer 1

When the hurly-burly’s done,

When the battle’s lost and won. (SW)

Question 2

Meeting Macbeth

Answer 2

There to meet with Macbeth(TW)

Question 3

Foreshadowing

Answer 3

Fair is foul and foul is fair.(W)

Question 4

Describing Macbeth

Answer 4

Brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name

Question 5

How Macbeth fought

Answer 5

Like Valour’s minion carv’d out his passage

Question 6

What Macbeth did to the enemy leader

Answer 6

Till he unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps

And fixed his head upon our battlements

Question 7

Asking about the reaction to Norwegian Leader.

Answer 7

Dismay’d not this our captains, MacBeth and Banquo?

Question 8

Sarcastic response

Answer 8

Yes, as sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion

Question 9

Bible related

Answer 9

meant to bathe in reeking wounds

Or memorise another Golgotha

Question 10

War’s husband

Answer 10

Bellona’s bridegroom

Question 11

Said to messenger. Macbeth’s promotion

Answer 11

Go pronounce his present death

And with his former title greet MacBeth

Question 12

Describing Macbeth as good

Answer 12

What he hath lost, noble MacBeth hath won’

Question 13

What the witches said at the start

Answer 13

So foul and fair a day I have not seen

Question 14

Banquo questioning the witches

Answer 14

Live you, or are you aught

That man may question

Question 15

Beards

Answer 15

you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so

Question 16

Prophecy to Macbeth

Answer 16

All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Glamis.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor.’
‘All hail MacBeth, hail to thee, that shalt be king hereafter.

Question 17

Prophecy to Banquo

Answer 17

Lesser than MacBeth, and greater.’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier.’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none

Question 18

Messenger talking to macbeth

Answer 18

He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor

Question 19

Macbeth talking to himself about the prophecy coming true

Answer 19

Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:

The greatest is behind

Question 20

Deciding if the phrphecy is good or bad

Answer 20

This supernatural soliciting

Cannot be ill, cannot be good

Question 21

Wondering if macbeth will have to do anything to be king

Answer 21

If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me

Without my stir

Question 22

Duncan calling macbeth his family

Answer 22

worthiest cousin

Question 23

Macbeth saying the job pays itself

Answer 23

The service and the loyalty I owe,

In doing it, pays itself

Question 24

Macbeth thinking about the prince

Answer 24

The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step

On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap

Question 25

Macbeth asking heaven not to show his badness

Answer 25

Stars, hide your fires,

Let light not see my black and deep desires