Quotes Flashcards
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So foul and fair a day i have not seen
Macbeth
Foul and fair
Live you, or are you aught that man may question
Banquo
Iive you
You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are so
Banquo
You should be women
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 chant
Lesser than macbeth and greater not so happy yet much happier thou shalt get kings though thou be none
Lesser than macbeth and yet greater.
He bade me from call him thane of cawdor
Bade me thane of cawdor
God husband
Bellonas bridegroom
Pronounce his death
Go pronounce his death and with his former title greet Macbeth
Duncan
‘So foul and fair a day I have not seen’ (MacBeth)
Foul and fair
‘Live you, or are you aught
That man may question?’ (Banquo)
Live you aight
‘you should be women,
And yet your beards forbid me to interpret
That you are so’ (Banquo)
Beards
‘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
All hail
‘Lesser than MacBeth, and greater.’
‘Not so happy, yet much happier.’
‘Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none.’ (Witches)
Lesser and greater
‘He bade me, from him, call thee Thane of Cawdor’
Ross
Bade me
(Aside) ‘Glamis, and Thane of Cawdor:
The greatest is behind’ (MacBeth)
The greatest is behind
(Aside) ‘This supernatural soliciting
Cannot be ill, cannot be good’ (MacBeth)
Supernatural soliciting
‘If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me
Without my stir’ (MacBeth)
Crown me
‘worthiest cousin’ (Duncan)
Cousin
‘The service and the loyalty I owe,
In doing it, pays itself’ (Macbeth)
Service loyalty
‘The Prince of Cumberland: that is a step
On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap’ (Macbeth)
Prince of cumberland
(Aside) ‘Stars, hide your fires,
Let light not see my black and deep desires’ (Macbeth)
Deep dark desires
Milk of human kindness
. ‘yet do I fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way’ (Lady Macbeth)
2. ‘thou wouldst be great;
Ambition
‘thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it’ (Lady Macbeth)
Pour spirits in ear.
‘I may pour my spirits in thine ear’ (Lady Macbeth)
4. ‘The raven himself is hoarse
That croaks the fatal entrance of Duncan
Under my battlements’ (Lady Macbeth)