quotes quiz Flashcards

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what are these/ so wither’d and so wild in their attire,/ that they look not like th’ inhabitants o’ th’ earth/ and yet are on’t? live you? or are you aught/ that man may question (1.3.39-43)

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banquo- talking to the witches, they don’t look like real people

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but ‘tis strange/ and oftentimes to win us to our harm/ the instruments of darkness tell us truths/ win us with honest trifles, to betray’s/ in deepest condolences

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Banquo: the witches aren’t telling the whole truth

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theres no art/ to find the minds construction in the fence/ he was a gentleman on whom i built/ an absolute trust

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Duncan: I simply trust him and that’s it.

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stars, hide your fires/ let not light see my black and deep desires

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macbeth: putting on a facade to hide your true intentions

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your face my thane is as a book, where men/ may read strange matters. to beguile the time/ look like the time; bear welcome in your eye,/ your hand, your tongue; look like th’ innocent flower/ but be the serpent under’t

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lady macbeth: no matter what look and act innocent but under tge facade be prepared for anything

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i have no spur/ to prick the sides of my intent, but only/ vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself,/ and falls on th’ other

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macbeth: it’s the luck of the draw, his ambition on one side and desires on another

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i would, white 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

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lady macbeth: she’d rather do a
horrible act other t

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