1. Macbeth quotes that will be on the test For each quote, you need to know –Who speaks the quote –Who is spoken to or described –Literary devices (if there are any) –What the quote means –What is going on in the play when the quote occurs (context)

2. Act I I.1.10-11 Fair is foul, and foul is fair: Hover through the fog and filthy air.

3. Act I I.3.122-127 But 'tis strange: 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.

4. Act I I.5.59-65 Your face, my thane, is as a book where men / May read strange matters. To beguile the time, / Look like the time; bear welcome in your eye, Your hand, your tongue: look like the innocent flower, But be the serpent under't.

5. Act II II.1.5-6 There's husbandry in heaven; Their candles are all out.

6. Act II II.2.34-35 Methought I heard a voice cry 'Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep',

7. Act II II.3.127-133 What will you do? Let's not consort with them: To show an unfelt sorrow is an office Which the false man does easy. I'll to England.

8. Act III III.1.1-3 Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all, / As the weird women promised, and, I fear, Thou play'dst most foully for't:

9. Act III III.2.36 “O, full of scorpions is my mind”

10. Act III III.4.30-32 There the grown serpent lies; the worm that's fled / Hath nature that in time will venom breed, No teeth for the present.

11. Act III III.5.30-33 He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

12. Act IV IV.1.98-100 our high-placed Macbeth Shall live the lease of nature, pay his breath To time and mortal custom.

13. Act IV IV.2.70-73 But I remember now / I am in this earthly world; where to do harm / Is often laudable, to do good sometime / Accounted dangerous folly:

14. Act IV IV.3.22-25 That which you are my thoughts cannot transpose: Angels are bright still, though the brightest fell; / Though all things foul would wear the brows of grace, / Yet grace must still look so.

15. Act IV IV.3.189-192 We are coming thither. Gracious England hath / Lent us good Siward and ten thousand men; / an older and a better soldier none / that Christendom gave out.

16. Act V V.1.58-61 Foul whisperings are abroad: unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: infected minds To their deaf pillows will discharge their secrets: More needs she the divine than the physician.

17. Act V V.4.4-7 Let every soldier hew him down a bough / And bear't before him: thereby shall we shadow / The numbers of our host and make discovery / Err in report of us.

18. Act V V.5.24-28 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.