Macbeth Important Quotes (Act I)

These flashcards highlight important quotes from Act I of Macbeth, focusing on their speakers, circumstances, and overall significance to the story.

If chance will have me king, why, / chance may crown me, / without my stir.

Macbeth contemplates fate and his potential rise to power without intervention.

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

Lady Macbeth expresses doubt about Macbeth's ruthlessness.

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

Banquo warning about the deceptive nature of evil forces.

The Prince of Cumberland. That is a / step on which I must fall down, or else o’erleap / for in my way it lies.

Macbeth realizes he must overcome obstacles to achieve his ambitions.

False face must hide what the false heart doth know.

Lady Macbeth suggests that one must disguise their true intentions.

He died / As one that had been studied in his death / To throw away the dearest thing he owed / As ‘twere a careless trifle.

Malcom eflects on the value of life and the consequences of ambition.