Key Quotations Flashcards
All 30 cards in this deck
Complete the quotation: “Fair is foul, …”
“… and foul is fair.” The three witches (Act 1 Scene 1).
Who says “So foul and fair a day I have not seen”?
Macbeth, in his first line (Act 1 Scene 3).
Who calls Macbeth “brave Macbeth (well he deserves that name)”?
The wounded Captain reporting the battle (Act 1 Scene 2).
Who says “If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me / Without my stir”?
Macbeth, in an aside (Act 1 Scene 3).
Complete the quotation: “Stars, hide your fires! / Let not light see …”
“… my black and deep desires.” Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 4).
Whom does Lady Macbeth call “too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness”?
Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5).
Complete the quotation: “Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, …”
“… unsex me here.” Lady Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5).
Complete the quotation: “look like the innocent flower, / But be …”
“… the serpent under’t.” Lady Macbeth to Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5).
Complete the quotation: “I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / …”
“Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself.” Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 7).
Who says “screw your courage to the sticking-place”?
Lady Macbeth to Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 7).
Complete the quotation: “False face must hide …”
“… what the false heart doth know.” Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 7).
Complete the quotation: “Is this a dagger which I see before me, …”
“… The handle toward my hand?” Macbeth (Act 2 Scene 1).
Who reports a voice crying “Macbeth does murder sleep”?
Macbeth, just after killing Duncan (Act 2 Scene 2).
Complete the quotation: “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood / …”
“Clean from my hand?” Macbeth (Act 2 Scene 2).
Who says “A little water clears us of this deed”?
Lady Macbeth (Act 2 Scene 2).
Who says “There’s daggers in men’s smiles”?
Donalbain (Act 2 Scene 3).
Complete the quotation: “Upon my head they plac’d a fruitless crown, / And put …”
“… a barren sceptre in my gripe.” Macbeth (Act 3 Scene 1).
Who says “O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!”?
Macbeth to Lady Macbeth (Act 3 Scene 2).
Who says “Never shake / Thy gory locks at me”?
Macbeth, to Banquo’s ghost (Act 3 Scene 4).
Complete the quotation: “I am in blood / Stepp’d in so far that, should I wade no more, / …”
“Returning were as tedious as go o’er.” Macbeth (Act 3 Scene 4).
Which apparition tells Macbeth “Be bloody, bold, and resolute”?
The bloody child (Act 4 Scene 1).
Complete the quotation: “What, all my pretty chickens and their dam / …”
“At one fell swoop?” Macduff (Act 4 Scene 3).
Who says “But I must also feel it as a man”?
Macduff, replying to Malcolm’s “Dispute it like a man” (Act 4 Scene 3).
Who says “Out, damned spot! out, I say!”?
Lady Macbeth, sleepwalking (Act 5 Scene 1).
Complete the quotation: “I have liv’d long enough: my way of life / Is fall’n into the sere, …”
“… the yellow leaf.” Macbeth (Act 5 Scene 3).
Who says Macbeth’s title hangs on him “like a giant’s robe / Upon a dwarfish thief”?
Angus (Act 5 Scene 2).
Complete the quotation: “Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, / …”
“Creeps in this petty pace from day to day.” Macbeth, on hearing of his wife’s death (Act 5 Scene 5).
Complete the quotation: “it is a tale / Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, / …”
“Signifying nothing.” Macbeth (Act 5 Scene 5).
Which character was “from his mother’s womb / Untimely ripp’d”?
Macduff, as he tells Macbeth in their final fight (Act 5 Scene 8).
Who calls the Macbeths “this dead butcher, and his fiend-like queen”?
Malcolm, in the play’s final speech.