Macbeth Quote Sheet

Act I
1. Fair is foul, and foul is fair
2. So foul and fair a day I have not seen.
3. All hail Macbeth, that shalt be king hereafter.
4. If chance will have me king, why chance will crown me without my stir.
5. Look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under it.
6. If it were done when tis done, then twere well It were done quickly.
7. Was the hope drunk Wherein you dressed yourself?
8. But screw your courage to the sticking place And well not fail.
9. False face must hide what the false heart doth know.
10. Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving it.
*11. And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In
deepest consequence.
*12. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full of the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.
*13. Come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty.
*14. I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which oerleaps itself And falls on th other
Act I=_________________________
We learn that Macbeth and his wife are differenthow?
Act II
15. Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?
16. The bell invites me, Hear it not, Duncan, for it is a knell That summons thee to heaven or to hell.
17. Had he not resembled My father as he slept, I had donet.
18. Methought I heard a voice cry, Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep.
19. Why did you bring the daggers from the place?
20. Will all great Neptunes ocean wash this blood Clean from my hand?
21. A little water clears us of this deed.
22. The night has been unruly. Where we lay, Our chimneys were blown down and, as they say, Lamentings heard I th air, strange
screams of death.
23. Approach the chamber and destroy your sight With a new gorgon.
24. Whats the business, That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley the sleepers of the house?
25. O, yet I do repent me of my fury, That I did kill them.
26. Woe, alas, what in our house?
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What happens in Act 2?
Act III
*27. Thou hast it nowall as the Weird women promised, and I fear Thou playedst most foully for t.
28. To be thus is nothing, But to be safely thus.
29. Naughts had, alls spent, Where our desire is got without content.
30. We have scorched the snake, not killed it.
31. O, full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!
32. Be innocent of the knowledge dearest chuck.
33. O treachery! Fly good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!
34. Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake thy gory locks at me.
35. Are you a man?
36. This is the very painting of your fear. This is the air-drawn dagger which you said Led you to Duncan.
37. Avaunt and quit my sight!
38. Hence, horrible shadow! Unreal mockry hence!
*39. I am in blood Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go oer.
40. We are yet but young in deed.
Act III=___________________________
What event is the climax? Explain why you think so.
Act IV
41. Double, double toil and trouble; fire burn, and cauldron bubble;
42. By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
43. First apparition:
44. Message:
45. Second Apparition:
46. Message:
47. Third Apparition:
48. Message:
49. Fourth Apparition:
50. Unspoken message:
51. The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand.
52. Wisdom? To leave his wife, to leave his babes,
53. Fathered he is, and yet hes fatherless.
54. I hope in no place so unsanctified Where such as thou mayst find him.
55. Alas, poor country, Almost afraid to know itself. It cannot Be called our mother, but our grave.
56. Your castle is surprised, your wife and babes Savagely slaughtered.
57. All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
58. I shall do so, But I must also feel it as a man.
59. O I could play the woman with mine eyes And braggart with my tongue.
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What actions happen in Act 4?
Does the catastrophe happen in Act 4?
Act V
60. All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.
61. My way of life Is falln into the sere, the yellow leaf, And that which should accompany old age, As honor, love, obedience,
troops of friends I must not look to have.
62. I have almost forgot the taste of fears.

***63. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow

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!
Lifes 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.

64. How do the prophecies come true?

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Act V=_____________________________
Who is king in the end?
What happens to Lady Macbeth?
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