Macbeth key Quotes

The key word from each quote to help you remember the rest of it.

foul - 1.1

Fair is foul, and foul is fair

lightning - 1.1

In thunder, lightning or in rain?

brave - 1.2

brave Macbeth - well he deserves that name

foul - 1.3

So foul and fair a day I have not seen

Stay - 1.3

Stay, you imperfect speakers.

instruments - 1.3

to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths; / Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s / In deepest consequence.

stars - 1.4

Stars, hide your fires, / Let not light see my black and deep desires

milk - 1.5

yet do I fear thy nature, / It is too full o’th’milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way.

unsex - 1.5

Come, you spirits… unsex me here / And fill me from the crown to the toe topfull / Of direst cruelty

dunnest - 1.5

Come, thick night, And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell

serpent - 1.5

look like th’innocent flower, / But be the serpent under’t.

spur - 1.7

I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself / And falls on th’other-

false - 1.7

False face must hide what the false heart doth know. (Macbeth)

dagger - 2.1

Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand?

sleep - 2.2

Macbeth does murder sleep

white - 2.2

My hands are of your colour, but I shame to wear a heart so white.

clears - 2.2

A little water clears us of this deed. / How easy is it then!

sacrilegious - 2.3

sacrilegious murder

smiles - 2.3

There’s daggers in men’s smiles (Donaldbain)

horses - 2.4

Duncan’s horses….. / Turned wild in nature

played’st - 3.1

I fear / Thou played'st most foully for 't (Banquo)

fruitless - 3.1

Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and put a barren sceptre in my gripe

scorpions - 3.2

O, full of scorpions is my mind

blood - 3.4

blood will have blood

accurs’d - 3.6

Our suffering country / Under a hand accurs’d

wicked - 4.1

Something wicked this way comes (Second Witch)

command - 4.3

What I am truly / Is thine, and my poor country’s to command (Malcolm)

feel - 4.3

But I must also feel it like a man

fiend - 4.3

this fiend of Scotland (Macduff)

spot - 5.1

Out, damned spot

hands - 5.1

will these hands ne’er be clean / all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand

player - 5.5

Out brief candle / Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player

Hail - 5.9

Hail, King of Scotland

butcher - 5.9

dead butcher and his fiend-like queen