Witches Key Quotes

• "[thunder and lightning]"

  Stage directions, Act 1, Scene 1
• "fair is foul and foul is fair, hover through the fog and filthy air"

  Witches, Act 1, Scene 1
• "you should be women, and yet your beards forbid me to interpret that you are"

  Banquo, Act 1, Scene 3
• "All hail Macbeth that shalt be king hereafter"

  Third Witch (to Macbeth), Act 1, Scene 3
• "Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none"

  Third Witch (to Banquo), Act 1, Scene 3
• "[witches vanish]"

  Stage directions, Act 1, Scene 3
• "to win us our harm, the instruments of darkness tell us truths"

  Banquo, Act 1, Scene 3
• "this supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good"

  Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 3
• "double double toil and trouble"


  Witches, Act 4, Scene 1
• "By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes"


  Second Witch, Act 4, Scene 1
• "secret black and midnight hags"

  Macbeth, Act 4, Scene 1
• "none of woman born shall harm Macbeth"

  Second apparition, Act 4, Scene 1
• "Macbeth shall never vanquished be, until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane hill shall come"


  Third Apparition, Act 4, Scene 1