Macbeth - Act 2 quotes

"There is husbandry in heaven. Their candles are all out."

• Macbeth

• Lady Macbeth

• Ross

• Banquo

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand?

• Macbeth

• Lady Macbeth

• Malcolm

• Old Man

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"That which hath made them drunk hath made me bold; what hath quenched them hath given me fire."

• Porter

• Malcolm

• Lady Macbeth

• Old Man

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Infirm of Purpose! Give me the daggers. The sleeping and the dead are as but pictures. 'Tis the eye of childhood that fears a painted devil"

• Lady Macbeth

• Banquo

• Macbeth

• Malcolm

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"What hands are here? Ha! They pluck out mine eyes! Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?"

• Lady Macbeth

• Macbeth

• Banquo

• Malcolm

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

Faith, sir. We were carousing til the second cock. And drink, sir, is a great provoker of three things..."

• Ross

• Banquo

• Porter

• Macbeth

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"The night has been unruly. Where we lay, our chimneys were blown down, as they say, lamentings heard i' the air, strange screams of death..."

• Banquo

• Macduff

• Macbeth

• Lennox

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had lived a blessed time; for from this instant there's nothing serious in mortality: all is but toys."

• Macbeth

• Ross

• Lady Macbeth

• Old Man

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"This murderous shaft that's shot hath not yet lighted, and our safest way is to avoid the aim."

• Macbeth

• Ross

• Malcolm

• Old Man

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3

"Threescore and ten I can remember well; within the volume of which time I have seen hours dreadful and things strange, but this sore night hath trifled former knowings."

• Old Man

• Ross

• Banquo

• Macbeth

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CCSS.RL.2.6

CCSS.RL.8.3