Macbeth quotes

Cards (28)

  • "I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, only vaulting ambition" - Macbeth- Ambition and power
  • "Out damned spot: Out I say!" - Lady Macbeth- Appearance versus reality
  • "Look like thy innocent flower, but be the serpent under it" - Lady Macbeth- Appearance versus reality
  • "When you durst do it, then you are a man" - Macbeth- ambition and power
  • "Life is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing"- Macbeth- Ambition and power
  • "A little water clears us of this deed" & "All perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand"- LM- Appearance versus reality
  • "Fair is foul and foul is fair" & "So foul and fair a day I have not seen" - Witches and Macbeth- Supernatural
  • "Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble" - Witches
  • "Sleep no more"- Macbeth - Supernatural
  • "Is this a dagger I see before me"- Macbeths vision- Supernatural
  • "Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here"- Lady Macbeth- Gender and appearance versus reality
  • "I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from its boneless gums and dashed the brains out"- Lady Macbeth- Violent imagery
  • "O valiant cousin, worthy gentleman!"- Duncan- Illustrates how quick he is to recognise the good deeds of his men.
  • "See, our honour'd hostess!"- Duncan- He is happy to see LM and she puts on a nice face to him.
  • "My worthy Cawdor!"- Duncan- He is describing Macbeth, he is promoting him.
  • "There is no art to find the mind's construction in the face" - Duncan- Shows he trusts appearances too much.
  • "O worthiest cousin! The sin of my ingratitude"- Duncan- He is apologising to Macbeth
  • "Can the devil speak true?"- Banquo-Rhetorical question- Banquo is shocked that the witches prophecies are true.
  • "The instruments of darkness tells us truths"- Banquo- Tells Macbeth to be careful. Illustrates the correct approach.
  • "In heaven their candles are all out"- Banquo- He starts to recognise the weird, strange supernatural element are happening.
  • "In the great hands of God... I fight of treason malice"- Banquo- He discovers the dead body of King Duncan. He is outraged.
  • "I fear thou play'dst most foully for it"- He starts having creeping doubts.
  • Macduff- "Most sacrilegious murder"- He has discovered King Duncan dead body. He is horrified.
  • Macduff- "O nation miserable, with an untitled tyrant"- He realised Macbeth is behind these murders and all the terrible things that have happened.
  • Macduff- "I bear a charmed life, which must not yield to one of women born" - Revengeful
  • Malcolm- "This Tyrant... was once thought honest' (4:3)- Malcolm talks about how Macbeth used to been seen as respectful.
  • Malcolm- "Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell". He cannot trust anyone.
  • "We shall not spend a large expense of time before we reckon with your several loves"- Malcolm