Macbeth Quotes From Act 3

Question: …and I fear thou play’dst most folly for it.

Answer: (Banquo soliloquy) Banquo admits he has suspicious Macbeth was the murderer of Duncan.

Question: To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus. Our fears in Banquo stick deep.

Answer: (Macbeth soliloquy) To be king is nothing, but to be securely stationed in a position of power is much better. Macbeth thinks Banquo will turn him in.

Question: It is concluded. Banquo, thy soul’s flight, if it find heaven, must find it out tonight.

Answer: (Macbeth soliloquy) Macbeth has successfully arranged Banquo’s death.

Question: Naught’s had, all’s spent, where our desire is got without content.

Answer: (Lady Macbeth soliloquy) They have their goal but not the happiness they expected to come with it.

Question: Things without all remedy should be without regard; what’s done is done.

Answer: (Lady Macbeth to Macbeth) She wants him to be happy and move on because there is no way to change what has happened.

Question: We’ve scorched the snake, not killed it.

Answer: (Macbeth to Lady Macbeth) They cannot stop their violence because the need for power will never end.

Question: Duncan is in his grave. After life’s fitful fever he sleeps well.

Answer: (Macbeth to Lady Macbeth) Macbeth thinks maybe death is better than being in a position where power and life are always being threatened and you can trust no one.

Question: Things bad begun make themselves strong by ill.

Answer: (Macbeth to Lady Macbeth) The only way to make this right is by continuing to attack.

Question: Oh treachery! Fly, good Fleance, fly! Fly fly!

Answer: (Banquo to Fleance) Banquo died and Fleance lived; Banquo knows Macbeth sent the murderers

Question: The worm that’s fled hath nature that in time will venom breed, no teeth for the present.

Answer: (Macbeth to murderer) He knows Fleance is a threat to the throne.