Macbeth

Macbeth Quote Cards

1. “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.

Hover through the fog and filthy air”

2. “What bloody man is that?”

3. “O valiant cousin! Worthy gentleman!”

4. “Great happiness!”

5. “Where hast thou been sister?”

“Killing swine.”

6. “You should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to

interpret that you are so.”

7. “Whither are they vanished?”

8. “What, can the devil speak true?”

9. “Stars, hide your fires;

Let not light see my black and deep desires....”

10. “. . . unsex me here,

And fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full

Of direst cruelty!”

11. “. . . Look like th’ innocent flower,

But be the serpent under ‘t.”

12. “But screw your courage to the sticking place. . . .”

13. “. . . Sleep no more!

Macbeth does murder sleep. . . .”

14. “O horror, horror, horror!”

15. “O, yet I do repent me of my fury,

That I did kill them.”

16. “I’ll to England.”

“To Ireland, I. . . . “

17. “O, treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly, fly, fly!”

18. “The times has been

That, when the brains were out, the man would die. . . . “

19. “I will tomorrow,

And betimes I will, to the weird sisters. . . . “

20. “Double, double, toil and trouble;

Fire burn and caldron bubble.”

21. “Beware Macduff!”

22. “. . . none of woman born shall harm Macbeth.”

23. “Macbeth shall never vanquished be until

Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill

Shall come against him.”

24. “Be bloody, bold, and resolute!”

25. “He has killed me, Mother!’

26. “Here’s the smell of blood still.”

27 “The Queen, my lord, is dead.”

28. “. . . The wood began to move.”

29. “I cannot fly,

But bearlike I must fight the course.”

30. “Macduff was from his mother’s womb

Untimely ripped.”

31. “Lay on, Macduff:

And damned be him that first cries “Hold, enough!”

32. “. . . behold, where stands

Th’ usurper’s curs’ed head.”

33. Hail, King of Scotland!”