Quotes Flashcards
(36 cards)
A name macbeth deserves
brave MacBeth – well he deserves that name’ (Captain)
Comparing to animals
‘Yes, as sparrows, eagles, or the hare, the lion’ (Captain)
Memorise something
‘meant to bathe in reeking wounds
Or memorise another Golgotha’ (Captain)
Macbeth has won
What he hath lost, noble MacBeth hath won’ (Duncan)
A day macbeth has not seen
So foul and fair a day I have not seen’ (MacBeth)
Banquo questions
Live you, or are you aught
That man may question?’ (Banquo)
Witches appearance
‘you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so’ (Banquo)
Hail someone
‘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.’ (Witches)
Banquo is less but greater
Lesser than MacBeth, and greater.’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier.’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.’ (Witches)
Greatest is somewhere
Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:
The greatest is behind’ (MacBeth)
Supernatural
This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good’ (MacBeth)
Something chance may do
If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me
Without my stir’ (MacBeth)
Relative
worthiest cousin’ (Duncan)
Paying with loyalty
The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself’ (Macbeth)
Someone Macbeth must leap over
The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap’ (Macbeth)
Macbeths desires
Stars, hide your fires,
Let light not see my black and deep desires’ (Macbeth)
Milk of kindness
yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way’
Without ambition
‘thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it’
The raven
The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements’
Unsex me
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!’
Come to breast
‘Come to my woman’s breasts,
And take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers’
If it were done
If it were done when ‘tis done, then ‘twere well
It were done quickly’
Teach
we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor’
Poison
our poison’d chalice
To our own lips