Macbeth: Key Quotes

foul is fair

Act 1 Scene 1
WITCHES: Fair is foul, and __________________.

brave

Act 1 Scene 2
CAPTAIN: For __________ Macbeth - well he deserves that name...

minion

Act 1 Scene 2
CAPTAIN: (Macbeth) Like Valour's ________ carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave

unseamed

Act 1 Scene 2
CAPTAIN: ...he ___________ him from the nave to th'chaps
And fixed his head upon our battlements.

Bellona's bridegroom

Act 1 Scene 2
ROSS: That B__________ b___________

foul and fair

Act 1 Scene 3
MACBETH: So _________ ______ ________ a day I have not seen.

images of death

Act 1 Scene 3
ROSS: He finds thee in the stout Norwegian ranks,
Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,
Strange __________ _____ __________.

instruments of darkness

Act 1 Scene 3
BANQUO: Oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The _____________ ____ ______________ tell us truths...

unfix my hair

Act 1 Scene 3
MACBETH: Why do I yield to that suggestion,
Whose horrid image doth __________ _____ _____________
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs...

function is smothered in surmise

Act 1 Scene 3
MACBETH:
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that _____________
____ ________________ _____ _________, and nothing is,
But what is not.

without my stir

Act 1 Scene 3
MACBETH: If chance will have me king,
why chance may crown me ___________ _____ ________.

mind's construction

Act 1 Scene 4
DUNCAN: There's no art to find the ______ ___________ in the face.

black and deep desires

Act 1 Scene 4
MACBETH: Stars, hide your fires,
Let not light see my ______ _____ _______ _________

unsex me here

Act 1 Scene 5
LADY MACBETH: Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, _______ ____ _______,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty!

the milk of human kindness

Act 1 Scene 5
LADY MACBETH: Yet I do fear thy nature,
It is too full of ______________________________
To catch the nearest way.

future

Act 1 Scene 5
LADY MACBETH: I feel now the _______ in the instant.

serpent under't

Act 1 Scene 5
LADY MACBETH: Look like the innocent flower,
But be the __________ ________.

assassination

Act 1 Scene 7
MACBETH: If the _____________________
Could trammel up consequence... this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all...

horrid deed in every eye

Act 1 Scene 7
MACBETH: And pity, like a naked newborn babe...
Shall blow the _________________________________...

Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself

Act 1 Scene 7
MACBETH: I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
____________ ______________, __________ __________ _________

then you were a man

Act 1 Scene 7
LADY MACBETH: When you durst do it, _________________.

dashed the brains out

Act 1 Scene 7
LADY MACBETH: I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums
And ___________ ______ ___________ _______, had I so sworn
As you have done to this.

screw your courage

Act 1 Scene 7
LADY MACBETH: ...__________ ________ _________ to the sticking place
And we'll not fail.

bend up

Act 1 Scene 7
MACBETH: I am settled and __________ ______
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.

heat-oppressed brain

Act 2 Scene 1
MACBETH: ...art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the ____________________________?

wicked dreams

Act 2 Scene 1
MACBETH: Now o'er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and ________________ abuse
The curtain'd sleep

summons thee to heaven or to hell

Act 2 Scene 1
MACBETH: I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That ___________________________________________.

hangman's

Act 2 Scene 2
MACBETH: One cried 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other;
As they had seen me with these _____________ hands.

mad

Act 2 Scene 2
LADY MACBETH: These deeds must not be thought
After these ways; so, it will make us _______.

murdered sleep

Act 2 Scene 2
MACBETH: Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house:
'Glamis hath ________________, and therefore Cawdor
Shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more.'

unbend your noble strength

Act 2 Scene 2
LADY MACBETH: Why, worthy thane,
You do ____________________________, to think
So brainsickly of things.

incarnadine

Act 2 Scene 2
MACBETH: What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas ________________,
Making the green one red.

clears us of this deed

Act 2 Scene 2
LADY MACBETH: My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white...
...A little water _____________________.

equivocator

Act 2 Scene 3
PORTER: Faith, here's an __________________, that could
swear in both the scales against either scale;
who committed treason enough for God's sake,
yet could not equivocate to heaven

royalty of nature

Act 3 Scene 1
MACBETH: Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep; and in his ___________ ____ ___________
Reigns that which would be fear'd.

fruitless crown

Act 3 Scene 1
MACBETH: Upon my head they placed a _____________ __________,
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe.

without content

Act 3 Scene 2
LADY MACBETH: Nought's had, all's spent,
Where our desire is got _________ _______________.

vizards

Act 3 Scene 2
MACBETH: (we must) make our faces ___________ to our hearts, Disguising what they are.

scorpions

Act 3 Scene 2
MACBETH: O, full of _____________ is my mind, dear wife!

chuck

Act 3 Scene 2
MACBETH: Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest _________,
Till thou applaud the deed.

bloody and invisible hand

Act 3 Scene 2
MACBETH: Come, seeling night,
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day;
And with thy __________ _____ ____________ _________
Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
Which keeps me pale!

degrees

Act 3 Scene 4
MACBETH: You know your own ___________; sit down: at first / And last the hearty welcome.

saucy doubts and fears

Act 3 Scene 4
MACBETH: Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect...
But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in
To s___________________________.

blood

Act 3 Scene 4
MACBETH: I am in _________
Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er...

go at once

Act 3 Scene 4
LADY MACBETH: Stand not upon the order of your going, / But ______________.

crack of doom

Act 4 Scene 1
MACBETH: Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo: down!
Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls...
... What, will the line stretch out to the ________________?

the firstlings of my hand

Act 4 Scene 1
MACBETH: ...from this moment
The very firstlings of my heart shall be
_____________________________.

murky

Act 5 Scene 1
LADY MACBETH: Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why, then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is __________!

the old man to have so much blood in him

Act 5 Scene 1
LADY MACBETH: Yet who would have thought ____________________________________________________?

where is she now

Act 5 Scene 1
LADY MACBETH: The thane of Fife had a wife: _____________________________?

sweeten this little hand

Act 5 Scene 1
LADY MACBETH: Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not ______________________________. Oh, oh, oh!

valiant fury

Act 5 Scene 2
CAITHNESS: Some say he's mad; others that lesser hate him / Do call it ________________...

Hang loose about him

Act 5 Scene 2
ANGUS: (Angus): Now does he feel
His secret murders sticking on his hands...
...now does he feel his title
_______________________, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.

sere

Act 5 Scene 3
MACBETH: I have lived long enough: my way of life
Is fall'n into the ______...

from my bones my flesh be hacked

Act 5 Scene 3
MACBETH: I'll fight till ___________________________________.

full with horrors

Act 5 Scene 5
MACBETH: I have almost forgot the taste of fears...
...I have supp'd _______________________;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts
Cannot once start me.

dusty death

Act 5 Scene 5
MACBETH: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
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 _________________.

sound and fury

Act 5 Scene 5
MACBETH: Out, out, brief candle!
Life's 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 ____________________,
Signifying nothing.

equivocation

Act 5 Scene 5
MACBETH: I pull in resolution, and begin
To doubt the _________________ of the fiend
That lies like truth...

undone

Act 5 Scene 5
MACBETH: I gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish the estate o' the world were now ___________.
Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!
At least we'll die with harness on our back.

juggling fiends

Act 5 Scene 8
MACBETH: ...be these _______________ no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope.

rabble's curse

Act 5 Scene 8
MACBETH: I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
And to be baited with the ___________________.

fiend-like

Act 5 Scene 8
MALCOLM: ...this dead butcher and his _______________ queen,
Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
Took off her life...

foul is fair

Act 1 Scene 1
WITCHES: Fair is foul, and __________________.

brave

Act 1 Scene 2
CAPTAIN: For __________ Macbeth - well he deserves that name...

minion

Act 1 Scene 2
CAPTAIN: (Macbeth) Like Valour's ________ carved out his passage
Till he faced the slave

unseamed

Act 1 Scene 2
CAPTAIN: ...he ___________ him from the nave to th'chaps
And fixed his head upon our battlements.

Bellona's bridegroom

Act 1 Scene 2
ROSS: That B__________ b___________

foul and fair

Act 1 Scene 3
MACBETH: So _________ ______ ________ a day I have not seen.

images of death

Act 1 Scene 3
ROSS: He finds thee in the stout Norwegian ranks,
Nothing afeard of what thyself didst make,
Strange __________ _____ __________.

instruments of darkness

Act 1 Scene 3
BANQUO: Oftentimes, to win us to our harm,
The _____________ ____ ______________ tell us truths...

unfix my hair

Act 1 Scene 3
MACBETH: Why do I yield to that suggestion,
Whose horrid image doth __________ _____ _____________
And make my seated heart knock at my ribs...

function is smothered in surmise

Act 1 Scene 3
MACBETH:
My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that _____________
____ ________________ _____ _________, and nothing is,
But what is not.

without my stir

Act 1 Scene 3
MACBETH: If chance will have me king,
why chance may crown me ___________ _____ ________.

mind's construction

Act 1 Scene 4
DUNCAN: There's no art to find the ______ ___________ in the face.

black and deep desires

Act 1 Scene 4
MACBETH: Stars, hide your fires,
Let not light see my ______ _____ _______ _________

unsex me here

Act 1 Scene 5
LADY MACBETH: Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, _______ ____ _______,
And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full
Of direst cruelty!

the milk of human kindness

Act 1 Scene 5
LADY MACBETH: Yet I do fear thy nature,
It is too full of ______________________________
To catch the nearest way.

future

Act 1 Scene 5
LADY MACBETH: I feel now the _______ in the instant.

serpent under't

Act 1 Scene 5
LADY MACBETH: Look like the innocent flower,
But be the __________ ________.

assassination

Act 1 Scene 7
MACBETH: If the _____________________
Could trammel up consequence... this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all...

horrid deed in every eye

Act 1 Scene 7
MACBETH: And pity, like a naked newborn babe...
Shall blow the _________________________________...

Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself

Act 1 Scene 7
MACBETH: I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
____________ ______________, __________ __________ _________

then you were a man

Act 1 Scene 7
LADY MACBETH: When you durst do it, _________________.

dashed the brains out

Act 1 Scene 7
LADY MACBETH: I would, while it was smiling in my face,
Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums
And ___________ ______ ___________ _______, had I so sworn
As you have done to this.

screw your courage

Act 1 Scene 7
LADY MACBETH: ...__________ ________ _________ to the sticking place
And we'll not fail.

bend up

Act 1 Scene 7
MACBETH: I am settled and __________ ______
Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.

heat-oppressed brain

Act 2 Scene 1
MACBETH: ...art thou but
A dagger of the mind, a false creation,
Proceeding from the ____________________________?

wicked dreams

Act 2 Scene 1
MACBETH: Now o'er the one halfworld
Nature seems dead, and ________________ abuse
The curtain'd sleep

summons thee to heaven or to hell

Act 2 Scene 1
MACBETH: I go, and it is done; the bell invites me.
Hear it not, Duncan; for it is a knell
That ___________________________________________.

hangman's

Act 2 Scene 2
MACBETH: One cried 'God bless us!' and 'Amen' the other;
As they had seen me with these _____________ hands.

mad

Act 2 Scene 2
LADY MACBETH: These deeds must not be thought
After these ways; so, it will make us _______.

murdered sleep

Act 2 Scene 2
MACBETH: Still it cried 'Sleep no more!' to all the house:
'Glamis hath ________________, and therefore Cawdor
Shall sleep no more; Macbeth shall sleep no more.'

unbend your noble strength

Act 2 Scene 2
LADY MACBETH: Why, worthy thane,
You do ____________________________, to think
So brainsickly of things.

incarnadine

Act 2 Scene 2
MACBETH: What hands are here? ha! they pluck out mine eyes.
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood
Clean from my hand? No, this my hand will rather
The multitudinous seas ________________,
Making the green one red.

clears us of this deed

Act 2 Scene 2
LADY MACBETH: My hands are of your colour; but I shame
To wear a heart so white...
...A little water _____________________.

equivocator

Act 2 Scene 3
PORTER: Faith, here's an __________________, that could
swear in both the scales against either scale;
who committed treason enough for God's sake,
yet could not equivocate to heaven

royalty of nature

Act 3 Scene 1
MACBETH: Our fears in Banquo
Stick deep; and in his ___________ ____ ___________
Reigns that which would be fear'd.

fruitless crown

Act 3 Scene 1
MACBETH: Upon my head they placed a _____________ __________,
And put a barren sceptre in my gripe.

without content

Act 3 Scene 2
LADY MACBETH: Nought's had, all's spent,
Where our desire is got _________ _______________.

vizards

Act 3 Scene 2
MACBETH: (we must) make our faces ___________ to our hearts, Disguising what they are.

scorpions

Act 3 Scene 2
MACBETH: O, full of _____________ is my mind, dear wife!

chuck

Act 3 Scene 2
MACBETH: Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest _________,
Till thou applaud the deed.

bloody and invisible hand

Act 3 Scene 2
MACBETH: Come, seeling night,
Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day;
And with thy __________ _____ ____________ _________
Cancel and tear to pieces that great bond
Which keeps me pale!

degrees

Act 3 Scene 4
MACBETH: You know your own ___________; sit down: at first / And last the hearty welcome.

saucy doubts and fears

Act 3 Scene 4
MACBETH: Then comes my fit again: I had else been perfect...
But now I am cabin'd, cribb'd, confined, bound in
To s___________________________.

blood

Act 3 Scene 4
MACBETH: I am in _________
Stepp'd in so far that, should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o'er...

go at once

Act 3 Scene 4
LADY MACBETH: Stand not upon the order of your going, / But ______________.

crack of doom

Act 4 Scene 1
MACBETH: Thou art too like the spirit of Banquo: down!
Thy crown does sear mine eye-balls...
... What, will the line stretch out to the ________________?

the firstlings of my hand

Act 4 Scene 1
MACBETH: ...from this moment
The very firstlings of my heart shall be
_____________________________.

murky

Act 5 Scene 1
LADY MACBETH: Out, damned spot! out, I say!--One: two: why, then, 'tis time to do't.--Hell is __________!

the old man to have so much blood in him

Act 5 Scene 1
LADY MACBETH: Yet who would have thought ____________________________________________________?

where is she now

Act 5 Scene 1
LADY MACBETH: The thane of Fife had a wife: _____________________________?

sweeten this little hand

Act 5 Scene 1
LADY MACBETH: Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not ______________________________. Oh, oh, oh!

valiant fury

Act 5 Scene 2
CAITHNESS: Some say he's mad; others that lesser hate him / Do call it ________________...

Hang loose about him

Act 5 Scene 2
ANGUS: (Angus): Now does he feel
His secret murders sticking on his hands...
...now does he feel his title
_______________________, like a giant's robe
Upon a dwarfish thief.

sere

Act 5 Scene 3
MACBETH: I have lived long enough: my way of life
Is fall'n into the ______...

from my bones my flesh be hacked

Act 5 Scene 3
MACBETH: I'll fight till ___________________________________.

full with horrors

Act 5 Scene 5
MACBETH: I have almost forgot the taste of fears...
...I have supp'd _______________________;
Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts
Cannot once start me.

dusty death

Act 5 Scene 5
MACBETH: To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
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 _________________.

sound and fury

Act 5 Scene 5
MACBETH: Out, out, brief candle!
Life's 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 ____________________,
Signifying nothing.

equivocation

Act 5 Scene 5
MACBETH: I pull in resolution, and begin
To doubt the _________________ of the fiend
That lies like truth...

undone

Act 5 Scene 5
MACBETH: I gin to be aweary of the sun,
And wish the estate o' the world were now ___________.
Ring the alarum-bell! Blow, wind! come, wrack!
At least we'll die with harness on our back.

juggling fiends

Act 5 Scene 8
MACBETH: ...be these _______________ no more believed,
That palter with us in a double sense;
That keep the word of promise to our ear,
And break it to our hope.

rabble's curse

Act 5 Scene 8
MACBETH: I will not yield,
To kiss the ground before young Malcolm's feet,
And to be baited with the ___________________.

fiend-like

Act 5 Scene 8
MALCOLM: ...this dead butcher and his _______________ queen,
Who, as 'tis thought, by self and violent hands
Took off her life...