| Witches | “Fair is foul, and foul is fair./ Hover through the fog and filthy air.” (Scene 1, lines 10-11) |
| Duncan | “No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive” (Scene 2, line 63) |
| Duncan | “What he hath lost noble Macbeth hath won.” (Scene 2, line 67) |
| Macbeth | “So foul and fair a day I have not seen.” (Scene 3, line 38) |
| Banquo | “If you can look into the seeds of time…” (Scene 3, line 58) |
| Macbeth | “This supernatural soliciting/ cannot be ill; cannot be good. IF ill,/ Why hath it given me earnest of success,/ Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor./ If good, why do yield to that suggestion/ WHose horrid image doth unfix my hair” (Scene 3, lines 130-135) |
| Malcom | “Nothing in his life/ Became him like the leaving it. He died/ As one that had been studied in his death/ To throw away the dearest thing he owned/ As ’twere a careless trifle.” (Scene 4, lines 7-11) |
| Duncan | “There’s no art/ To find the mind’s construction in the face. He was a gentleman on whom I built/ An absolute trust.” (Scene 4, lines 12-15) |
| Macbeth | “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step/ On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap,/ For in my way it lies.” (Scene 4, lines 48-50) |
| Macbeth | “Stars, hide your fires!” (Scene 4, line 50) |
| Lady Macbeth | “Yet do I fear they nature. It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness/ To catch the nearest way” (Scene 5, lines 16-17) |
| Lady Macbeth | “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!” (Scene 5, lines 40-43) |
| Lady Macbeth | “look like the innocent flower,/ but be the serpent under’t.” (Scene 5, lines 65-66) |
| Macbeth | “I have no spur/ To prick the sides of my intent, but only/ Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself/ And falls on the other-” (Scene 7, lines 25-28) |
| Macbeth | “False face must hide what the false heart doth know.” (Scene 7, lines 59-61) |
Macbeth Quote Test Act 1
July 10, 2019