Macbeth quotes prompts Flashcards
“Will all great Neptune’s oceans”
“Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.”
“I fear thy nature”
““I fear thy nature –
It is too full o’th
milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest
way. Thou wouldst
be great,
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness
should attend
it.”
“When you durst do it”
“When you durst do it, then you were a man; and to be more than what you were, you would be so much more than a man.”
“Here’s the smell of blood”
“Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand?”
“Sleep no more”
“Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep”
“keep the natural ruby of your cheeks”
“When now I think you can behold such sights,
And keep the natural ruby of your cheeks,
When mine is blanched with fear.”
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow”
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
“Why do I yield”
“why do I yield to that suggestion
Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs”
“Get thee back”
“But get thee back; my soul is too much charged
With blood of thine already.”
Serpent
“Look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t”
“A little water”
“A little water clears us of the deed”
“Who would have thought”
“Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?”
“To be thus”
“To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus.”
“O Hell-kite!”
“O Hell-kite! All?
What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
At one fell swoop?”
“Taste of fears”
“I have almost forgotten the taste of fears”
