Quotations Review
MACBETH
Directions:
 For each quotation, answer the following
questions:
 Who said it
 To whom it was said
 Significance? Literary elements, elements of
a tragedy, or theme
 “Fair is foul, and foul is fair” (I.i.10).
 “All hail, Macbeth! Hail to thee, thane of
Cawdor! / All hail, Macbeth, that shalt be king
hereafter!” (I.iii.49-50).
 “Lesser than Macbeth and greater. / Thou
shalt get kings, though thou be none” (I.iii.65,
67).
 “If good, why do I yield to that suggestion /
whose horrid image doth unfix my hair / and
make my seated heart knock at my ribs, /
against the use of nature?” (I.iii.134-137).
 “Yet I do fear thy nature;/ it is too full o’th’
milk of human kindness / to catch the nearest
way” (I.v.14-16).
 “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” (I.v.38-41).
 “Look like th’ innocent flower, / but be the
serpent under’t” (I.vii.63-64).
 “False face must hide what the false heart
doth know” (I.vii.82).
 “Is this a dagger I see before me? / The handle
toward my hand?” (II.i.33-34).
 “Had he not resembled / My father as he
slept, I had done’t” (II.ii.12-13).
 “Macbeth does murder sleep [. . .] Macbeth
shall sleep no more” (II.ii.35)
 “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this
blood / Clean from my hand?” (II.ii.59-60).
 “A little water clears us of this deed” (II.ii.66).
 “My hands are of your color, but I shame / to
wear a heart so white” (II.ii.63-64).
 “Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown /
And put a barren scepter in my grip [. . .] no
son of mine succeeding” (III.1.61-62).
 “It is concluded, Banquo, thy soul’s flight, / If
it find heaven, must find it out tonight”
(III.i.141-142).
 “Come on, gentle my lord,/ Sleek o’er your
rugged looks. Be bright and jovial / Among
your guests tonight” III.ii.27-29).
 “Thou canst not say I did it. Never shake / Thy
gory locks at me” (III.iv.50-51).
 “We are yet but young in deed” (III.v.144).
 “By the pricking of my thumbs, / Something
wicked this way comes” (IV.i.44-45).
 “Macbeth! Macbeth! Macbeth! Beware
Macduff” (IV.i.70).
 “Laugh to scorn / The power of man, for none
of woman born / Shall harm Macbeth”
(IV.i.80-81).
 “Macbeth shall never vanquished be until /
Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill /
Shall come against him” (IV.i.92-94).
 “Your castle is surprised, your wife and babes
/ Savagely slaughtered” (IV.iii.204-205).
 “Out, damned spot! Out, I say! [. . .] Yet who
would have thought the old man to have so
much blood in him” (V.i.31,35).
 “Macduff was from his mother’s womb
untimely ripped” (V.viii.15-16).