act 4

Cards (23)

  • "By the pricking of my thumbs, / Something wicked this way comes" -The Witches
  • "you secret, black, and midnight hags!" -Macbeth
  • "you untie the winds and let them fight / Against the churches" -Macbeth
  • "castles topple on their warders' heads" -Macbeth
  • "beware Macduff" -[an armed Head]
  • "laugh to scorn / The power of man, for none of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth" -[a bloody Child]
  • "Be lion-mettled [...] Macbeth shall never vanquish'd be until / Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill / Shall come against him" -[a Child crowned with a tree in his hand]
  • "the blood-bolter'd Banquo smiles upon me" -Macbeth
  • "Infected be the air whereon they ride" -Macbeth
  • "for the poor wren, / The most diminutive of birds, will fight, /Her young ones in her nest, against the owl" -Lady Macduff
  • "Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward / To what they were before" -Ross
  • "How will you live?" -Lady Macduff
    "As birds do, Mother" -Son
  • "What, you egg? / Young fry of treachery!" -Murderer
  • "Let us seek out some desolate shade and there / Weep our sad bosoms empty" -Malcolm
  • "Let us rather / Hold fast the mortal sword" -Macduff
  • "This tyrant, whose sole name blisters our tongues, / Was once thought honest" -Malcolm
  • "our country sinks [...] It weeps, it bleeds, and each new day a gash / Is added to her wounds" -Malcolm
  • "my more-having would be as a sauce / To make me hunger more" -Malcolm
  • "had I power, I should / Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell" -Malcolm
  • "It cannot / Be call'd our mother, but our grave" -Ross
  • "good men's lives / Expire before the flowers" -Ross
  • "Let’s make us med'cines of our great revenge" -Malcolm
  • "Dispute it like a man" -Malcolm
    "I shall do so; / But I must also feel it as a man" -Macduff