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  • “Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”- the witches act 1 scene 1
  • What bloody man is that?- king duncan act one scene two
  • “If you can look into the seeds of time, and say which grain will grow and which will not."- Banquo act 1 scene 3
  • “Or have we eaten on the insane root that takes the reason prisoner?”- Banquo Act 1 scene 3
  • “What! can the devil speak true?” - Banquo Act 1 scene 3
  • “Present fears are less than horrible imaginings.” -King Duncan Act 1 scene 4
  • “There’s daggers in men’s smiles”- Donalbain Act 2 Scene 3
  • “Double, double toil and trouble: Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.”- Witches Act 4 Scene 1
  • “By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.”- Second Witch Act 4 Scene 1
  • “Macbeth shall never vanquished be until Great Birnam wood to high Dunsinane Hill Shall come against him.”
    Third apparition (Act 4 Scene 1)
  • "A deed without a name"- Witches Act 4 Scene 1
  • “When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors.”
    Lady Macduff (Act 4 Scene 2)
  • “Now does he feel his title hang loose about him, like a giant’s robe upon a dwarfish thief.”
    Angus (Act 5 Scene 2)
  • “Tongue nor heart cannot conceive nor name thee!”
    Macduff (Act 2 Scene 3)
  • "The patient must minister to himself" Doctor (Act 5 Scene 3)
  • "Those clamorous harbingers of blood and death" - Macduff (Act 5 Scene 6)
  • "Nothing is but what is not" Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 3)
  • "Come what come may time and the hour runs through the roughest day"- Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 3)
  • "False face must hide what the false heart doth know."-Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 7)
  • "I dare do all that may become a man; who dares do more is none"- Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 7)
  • "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly"- Macbeth (Act 1 scene 7)
  • “To prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other”- Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7
  • “Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee: I have thee not, and yet I see thee still.”- Macbeth (Act 2 Scene 1)
  • “Thou sure and firm-set earth, hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear thy very stones prate of my whereabout”-Macbeth (Act 2 Scene 1)
  • “Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood clean from my hand?No, this my hand will rather the multitudinous seas incarnadine, making the green one red.”- Macbeth (Act 2 Scene 2)
  • “Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep:  the innocent sleep, sleep that knits up the ravelled sleeve of care, the death of each day’s life, sore labor’s bath, balm of hurt minds, great nature’s second course, chief nourisher in life’s feast.”-Macbeth (Act 2 Scene 2)
  • “Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill.”-Macbeth (Act 3 Scene 2)
  • “Blood will have blood.”-Macbeth (Act 3 Scene 4)
  • “It will have blood, they say: blood will have blood."-Macbeth (Act 3 Scene 4)
  • “How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags!”-Macbeth (Act 4 Scene 1)
  • “The devil damn thee black, thou cream-faced loon! Where gott’st thou that goose look?”-Macbeth (Act 5 Scene 3)
  • “To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, creeps in this petty pace from day to day to the last syllable of recorded time, and all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! 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.”- Macbeth (Act 5 Scene 5)
  • “I bear a charmed life.”- Macbeth (Act 5 Scene 8)
  • The raven himself is hoarse that croaks the fatal entrance of Duncanunder my battlements"- Lady Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5)
  • “Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness.”- Lady Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5)
  • “Come you spirits, that tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.”-Lady Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5)
  • "Bear welcome in your eye, your hand, your tongue. Look like th’ innocent flower, but be the serpent under ‘t."- Lady Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5)
  • "Come, thick night, and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell"-Lady Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5)
  • "Come to my woman’s breasts, and take my milk for gall, you murd’ring ministers"-Lady Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5)
  • “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."-Lady Macbeth (Act 1 Scene 5)