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Flashcards by Mikko Holden, updated more than 1 year ago
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Created by Mikko Holden
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| Question | Answer |
| Macbeth Key Quotes | Macbeth Key Quotes |
| Act 1, Scene 1: The Witches (To each other) | 'Fair is foul, and foul is fair, Hover through the fog and filthy air.' |
| Act 1, Scene 1: The Witches (To each other) | 'When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? When the hurly burly 's done, When the battle's lost and won.' |
| Act 1, Scene 2: The Captain (To Duncan) | 'For brave Macbeth—well he deserves that name— Disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, Which smoked with bloody execution, Like valour’s minion carved out his passage' |
| Act 1, Scene 3: Macbeth (To Banquo) | 'So foul and fair a day I have not seen' |
| Act 1, Scene 3: Banquo (To Macbeth) | 'And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths' |
| Act 1, Scene 3: Macbeth (To himself) | 'If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.' |
| Act 1, Scene 4: Malcolm (To Duncan) | 'Nothing in his life became him like the leaving it; he died as one that had been studied in his death to throw away the dearest thing he owed, as 't were a careless trifle.' |
| Act 1, Scene 4: Macbeth (To Himself) | 'Stars hide your fires let not light see my black and deep desires.' |
| Act 1, Scene 5: Lady Macbeth (To herself) | 'Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o' the milk of human kindness.' |
| Act 1, Scene 5: Lady Macbeth (To Macbeth) | 'Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under't.' |
| Act 1, Scene 5: Lady Macbeth (To herself/spirits) | 'Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, un-sex me here And fill me from the crown to the toe top full Of direst cruelty' |
| Act 1, Scene 6: Duncan (To those with him/Banquo) | 'This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself Unto our gentle senses.' |
| Act 1, Scene 7: Macbeth (To himself) | 'If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly.' |
| Act 1, Scene 7: Macbeth (To Lady Macbeth) | 'I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none.' |
| Act 1, Scene 7: Lady Macbeth (To Macbeth) | 'Screw your courage to the sticking-place, and we’ll not fail.' |
| Act 1, Scene 7: Macbeth (To Lady Macbeth) | 'False face must hide what the false heart doth know.' |
| Act 1, Scene 7: Macbeth (To Himself) | 'I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other' |
| Act 2, Scene 1: Macbeth (To Himself) | ' Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?' |
| Act 2, Scene 2: Macbeth (To Lady Macbeth) | '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.' |
| Act 2, Scene 3: Donalbain | 'Where we are there's daggers in men's smiles. The near in blood, The nearer bloody.' |
| Act 3, Scene 1: Banquo | 'Thou hast it now, King, Cawdor, Glamis, all as the weird sisters promis’d, and I fear Thou hast played most foully for’t' |
| Act 3, Scene 1: Macbeth | 'Only for them, and mine eternal jewel Given to the common enemy of man, To make them kings, the seed of Banquo kings!' |
| Act 3, Scene 2: Lady Macbeth & Macbeth | 'What’s done is done.' 'We have scorch’d the snake, not kill’d it.' |
| Act 3, Scene 2: Macbeth | 'O full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!' |
| Act 3, Scene 3: Macbeth | 'Duncan is in his grave; After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.' |
| Act 3, Scene 4: Macbeth | 'I am cabin’d, cribb’d, confin’d, bound in saucy doubts and fears.' |
| Act 3, Scene 4: Macbeth | 'Thou canst not say I did it; never shake thy gory locks at me!' |
| Act 4, Scene 1: The Witches | 'By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.' |
| Act 4, Scene 1: The Witches | 'Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.' |
| Act 4, Scene 3: Malcolm | 'Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell. Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, Yet grace must still look so.' |
| Act 5, Scene 1: Lady Macbeth | 'Out, damned spot! out, I say!' |
| Act 5, Scene 1: Lady Macbeth | 'Here’s the smell of blood still; all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.' |
| Act 5, Scene 3: Macbeth | 'I have lived long enough. My way of life Is fallen into the sear, the yellow leaf, And that which should accompany old age, As honour, love, obedience, troops of friends, I must not look to have; but in their stead Curses, not loud but deep' |
| Act 5, Scene 5: Macbeth | 'To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, 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! Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage, And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.' |
| Act 5, Scene 8: Macbeth & Macduff | 'I bear a charmed life which must not yield To one of woman born.' 'Macduff was from his mother’s womb untimely ripp’d.' |
| Act 5, Scene 9: Malcolm | 'Of this dead butcher and his fiend-like queen' |
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