Quotations Review

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 ).

 “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 ).

 “It is concluded, Banquo, thy soul’s flight, / If it find heaven, must find it out tonight” (III.i ).

 “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 ).

 “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).