| Act 1 Scene 2 Macbeth as a soldier | “brave Macbeth … Valour’s minion … Bellona’s bridegroom” |
| Act 1 Scene 3 Macbeth eager to know fate from Witches | “Stay you imperfect speakers. Tell me more” |
| Act 1 Scene 4 Macbeth evil star imagery | “Stars, hide you fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires” |
| Act 1 Scene 4 killing Malcolm | “o’erleap, for in my way it lies” |
| Act 1 Scene 5 Lady Macbeth excited about future | “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor and thou shalt be / What thou art promised” |
| Act 1 Scene 5 Reality and Appearances | “Look like the innocent flower / But be the serpent under’t” |
| Act 1 Scene 5 Lady Macbeth evil | “And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full / Of direst cruelty.” |
| Act 1 Scene 7 Lady Macbeth killing child | “Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, / And dashed the brains out.” |
| Act 1 Scene 7 Lady Macbeth saying Macbeth is a coward | “live a coward in thine own esteem, letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would”, / Like the poor cat i’th adage?” |
| Act 2 Scene 1 Reality + Appearances, Madness (Dagger) | “Is this a dagger which I see before me?” |
| Act 2 Scene 2 God not on his side | “Amen / Stuck in my throat” |
| Act 2 Scene 2 Lady Macbeth water no concern over evil | “A little water clears us of this deed” |
| Act 2 Scene 3 Macduff very distraught | “Oh horror, horror, horror” |
| Act 2 Scene 4 disruption of natural order | “A falcon, towering in her pride of place, / Was by a mousing owl hawked at, and killed” |
| Act 3 Scene 1 Macbeth about his life | “mine eternal jewel” |
| Act 3 Scene 2 Lady Macbeth reality + appearances | “Sleek o’er your rugged looks. Be bright and jovial among your guests tonight.” |
| Act 3 Scene 3 Banquo’s ghost appearance | “Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; / Thou hast no speculation in those eyes / Which thou dost glare with!” |
| Act 3 Scene 3 Macbeth’s fear of Banquo’s Ghost | “Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear, / The arm’d rhinoceros or the Hyrcan tiger” |
| Act 3 Scene 3 Description of Banquo smiling / winning | “blood-batter’d Banquo smiles upon me, / And points at them for his” |
| Act 3 Scene 4 Description of Fleance as worm | “the worm, that’s fled, / Hath nature than in time will venom breed” |
| Act 3 Scene 4 Macbeth’s weakness | “Whole as the marble, founded as the rock … but now I am cabined, cribbed, confined.” |
| Act 4 Scene 2 Bird | “Poor bird, thou’dst never fear the net, nor lime, the pitfall, nor the gin” |
| Act 4 Scene 2 Disruption of Natural Order | There are liar and swearers enough to beat the honest men and hang up them” |
| Act 4 Scene 2 Description of Scotland | “It cannot / Be called our mother, but our grave” |
| Act 4 Scene 2 Many People Dying | “The dead men’s knell / Is there scarce asked for who” |
| Act 4 Scene 3 Ross telling Macduff about wife’s death | “Your wife and babes / Savagely slaughtered” |
| Act 4 Scene 3 Malcolm telling Macduff to take revenge | “Let grief convert to anger. Blunt not the heart, enrage it” |
| Act 5 Scene 1 Lady Macbeth guilt (perfume) | “All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand” |
| Act 5 Scene 1 Lady Macbeth telling guilt to leave | “Out, damned spot” |
| Act 5 Scene 1 Lady Macbeth gone mad | “You see her eyes are open … but their sense is shut … will these hands ne’er be clean?” |
| Act 5 Scene 2 Macbeth protecting himself not Scotland | “Great Dunsinane he strongly fortifies” |
| Act 5 Scene 5 Macbeth raging at servant – evil | “Liar and slave!” |
| Act 5 Scene 5 Macbeth talks about lack of control over fate | “A poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage” |
| Act 5 Scene 7 Macduff fighting Macbeth – revenge | “Tyrant, show thy face!” |
GCSE English Macbeth Quotations
November 23, 2019