Macbeth Quotations Flashcards by Henry Etherington

A1S1 - the witches assemble

thunder and lightning
meet with Macbeth
fair is foul, and foul is fair

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A1S2 - Captain’s speech

brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name
smok’d with bloody execution
unseam’d him from the nave to th’chaps
doubly redoubled

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A1S2 - Duncan responds to the Captain’s speech

valiant cousin, worthy gentleman
they smack of honour both
with his former title greet Macbeth
noble Macbeth

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A1S3 - the witches assemble again

drain him dry as hay
tempest-toss’d

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A1S3 - the witches appear to Macbeth and Banquo

so foul and fair a day
look not like th’inhabitants o’th’earth
shalt be king hereafter
thou shalt get kings, though thou be none

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A1S3 - Macbeth becomes Thane of Cawdor

how our partner’s rapt
chance may crown me without my stir
come what come may

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A1S4 - Duncan reflects on the Thane of Cawdor transition

there’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face
absolute trust
worthiest cousin
I have begun to plant thee and will labour to make thee full of growing

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A1S4 - Macbeth considers his obstacles

that is a step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap
stars, hide your fires
let not light see my black and deep desires
the eye wink at the hand

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A1S5 - Lady Macbeth reads Macbeth’s letter

dearest partner of greatness
too full o’th’milk of human kindness
not without ambition, but without the illness that should attend it
pour my spirits in thine ear

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A1S5 - Lady Macbeth calls on the supernatural

raven himself is hoarse
come, ye spirits
unsex me here
fill me from the crown to the toe topfull of direst cruelty
take my milk for gall
dunnest smoke of hell

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A1S5 - Macbeth returns to Inverness

look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t
leave all the rest to me

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A1S6 - Lady Macbeth welcomes Duncan

honour’d hostess
in every point twice done and then done double

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A1S7 - Macbeth reconsiders murdering Duncan

we’d jump the life to come
his virtues will plead like angels, trumpet-tongu’d
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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A1S7 - Lady Macbeth persuades Macbeth to go through with the murder

we will proceed no further
when you durst do it, then you were a man
dash’d the brains out
screw your courage to the sticking-place

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A2S1 - Macbeth reflects on the murder he is about to commit

is this a dagger
come, let me clutch thee
fatal vision
proceeding from the heat-oppressèd brain

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A2S2 - Macbeth instantly regrets the murder of Duncan

Macbeth doth murder sleep
Macbeth shall sleep no more
infirm of purpose!
will all great Neptune’s oceans wash this blood clean from my hands?
I shame to wear a heart so white
wake Duncan with thy knocking: I would thou couldst

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A2S3 - the lords react to Duncan’s death

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O, horror, horror, horror
new Gorgon
ring the alarum bell! Murder and treason!
silver skin lac’d with golden blood

A2S3 - Malcolm and Donalbain run away

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there’s daggers in men’s smiles

A2S4 - Ross discusses affairs with an Old Man

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a falcon […] was by a mousing owl hawked at and killed
[Duncan’s horses] eat each other
{A2S3} the Earth was feverous and did shake

A3S1 - Banquo hides his suspicion from Macbeth

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I fear thou played’st most foully for’t
fail not our feast

A3S1 - Macbeth reflects on the threat posed by Banquo

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fruitless crown
barren sceptre
for Banquo’s issue have I fil’d my mind

A3S1 - Macbeth briefs the murderers

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A3S2 - Macbeth and Lady Macbeth discuss their situation

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nought’s had, all’s spent
we have scotch’d the stake, not kill’d it
terrible dreams that shake us nightly
O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!

A3S3 - Banquo is murdered

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O, treachery!
fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!

A3S4 - Macbeth hears from the first murderer as the banquet begins

* thou art the best o'th'cut-throats * cabin'd, cribb'd, confin'd

A3S4 - the Ghost of Banquo appears to Macbeth

* never shake thy gory locks at me! * avaunt and quit my sight! * blood will have blood

A3S5 - the witches meet with Hecate

A3S6 - Lennox discusses with another Lord

A4S1 - the witches prepare to meet Macbeth

* *thunder* * double, double toil and trouble, fire burn, and cauldron bubble

A4S1 - Macbeth returns to the witches

* by the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes * beware Macduff * none of woman born shall harm Macbeth * Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him

A4S2 - Macduff's family is visited and murdered at Fife

* young fry of treachery * he has killed me, mother

A4S3 - Malcolm tests Macduff

* I should pour the sweet milk of concord into hell * O Scotland, Scotland! * child of integrity

A4S3 - Macduff is told of his family's murder

* did you say all? Oh hell-kite! All? * dispute it like a man * I must also feel it as a man

A5S1 - Lady Macbeth is witnessed sleepwalking

* washing her hands * out, damned spot! * Hell is murky * all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand

A5S2 - the army approaches Inverness

* the English power is near * those he commands, move only in command, nothing in love * dew the sovereign flower and drown the weeds

A5S3 - Macbeth prepares for battle

* Seyton! - I am sick at heart * give me mine armour * cure her of that

A5S4 - Birnam Wood marches on Dunsinane Hill

* confident tyrant

A5S5 - Macbeth learns of Lady Macbeth's death

* she should have died hereafter * tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow * out, out, brief candle, life's but a walking shadow * it is a tale told by an idiot […] signifying nothing

A5S6 - the battle begins

* *alarums continued*

A5S7 - Macbeth kills Young Siward as the battle progresses

* abhorred tyrant

A5S8 - Macbeth encounters Macduff

* turn, hell-hound, turn * my soul is too much charg'd with blood of thine already * thou bloodier villain than terms can give thee out * from his mother's womb, untimely ripp'd

A5S9 - Malcolm is proclaimed King

* *enter Macduff, with Macbeth's head* * th'usurper's cursed head * henceforth be earls * dead butcher * fiend-like queen

Macbeth Quotations Flashcards

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