Macbeth Act 1

Flashcards for Macbeth quotes Act 1

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair. Hover through the fog and filthy air.”

The Witches 1.1.12-13

“If you can look into the seeds of time and say which grain will grow and which will not, speak then to me.”

Banquo 1.3.58-60

“If chance will have me king, why chance may crown me without my stir”

Macbeth 1.3.143

“There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.”

Duncan 1.4.11

“Stars hid up your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires.”

Macbeth 1.4.50-51

“I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way.”

Lady Macbeth 1.5.17-21

“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! Make thick my blood, stop up th’ access and passage to remorse…”

Lady Macbeth 1.5.41-45

“Look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t.”

Lady Macbeth 1.5.66

“His virtues will plead like angels trumpet - tongued against the deep damnation of his taking off.”

Lady Macbeth 1.7.17-20

“How tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, have plucked my nipple from his boneless gums, and dashed the brains out, had I sworn as you have done this.”

Lady Macbeth 1.7.55-58

“False face must hide what the false heart doth know.”

Macbeth 1.7.80-82