1. Significant Quotes Test Review
Macbeth
Significant Quotes Test Review

2. Witches: “When shall we three meet again?” (1.1.1)

3. Witches: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.” (1.1.11)

4. Malcolm, about Cawdor: “…nothing in his life / became him like the leaving it.” (1.4.8-9)

5. Duncan, about Cawdor: “There’s no art / To find the mind’s construction in the face: / He was a gentleman on whom I built, / An absolute trust.” ( )

6. Macbeth: “Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.” (1.4.57-58)

7. Lady Macbeth, about Macbeth: “Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be What thou art promised: yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way: thou wouldst be great: Art not without ambition, but without The illness should attend it; what thou wouldst highly, That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false, And yet wouldst wrongly win.” ( )

8. Lady Macbeth, about herself: “Unsex me here, and fill me, from the crown to the toe, top-full of direst cruelty!” ( )

9. Lady Macbeth, to Macbeth: “Look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under it.” ( )
ASK: What is this an example of? (Dramatic irony)

10. Duncan, about Inverness: “This castle hath a pleasant seat; the air / Nimbly and sweetly recommends itself / Unto our gentle senses.” ( )
ASK: What is this an example of? (Dramatic irony)

11. Macbeth: “Methought, I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more
Macbeth: “Methought, I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more! / Macbeth does murder sleep’- innocent sleep, / Sleep that knits up the ravell’d sleave of care.” ( )
ASK: What is this an example of? (Dramatic irony)

12. Lady Macbeth: “How easy is it then!” (2.2.86)
ASK: What is this an example of? (Dramatic irony)

13. Lady Macbeth, to Macbeth: “Be not lost so poorly in your thoughts. ”(2
ASK: What is this an example of? (Dramatic irony)

14. The Porter: “Here’s a knocking indeed!” (2.3.1)
ASK: What is this an example of? (Dramatic irony)

15. Macduff: “I’ll make so bold to call, / For ‘tis my limited service
ASK: What is this an example of? (Dramatic irony)

16. Malcolm: “To show an unfelt sorrow is an office / Which the false man does easy.” (2.3.160-161)
ASK: What is this an example of? (Dramatic irony)

17. Banquo, about Macbeth: “Thou hast it now
Banquo, about Macbeth: “Thou hast it now and I fear Thou play’dst most foully for’t” ( )
ASK: What is this an example of? (Dramatic irony)

18. Banquo, about himself: “Myself should be the root and father / Of many kings.” (3.1.5-6)
ASK: What is this an example of? (Dramatic irony)

19. Lady Macbeth: “Nought’s had, all’s spent
Lady Macbeth: “Nought’s had, all’s spent. Where our desire is got without content: ‘Tis safer to be that which we destroy Than by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy.” ( )
ASK: What is this an example of? (Dramatic irony)

20. Macbeth: “I have almost forgot the taste of fears: / The time has been, my senses would have cool’d / To hear a night-shriek […] I have supp’d full with horrors: / Direness, familiar to my slaughterous thoughts, / Cannot once start me.” ( , 14-16)
ASK: What is this an example of? (Dramatic irony)

21. Macbeth: “She should have died hereafter
Macbeth: “She should have died hereafter. There would have been a time for such a word. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day To the last syllable of recorded time, And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player That struts and frets his hour upon the stage And then is heard no more. It is a tale Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing.” ( )