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"
Fair
is
foul
and
foul
is
fair
;
hover
through the
fog
and
filthy
air"
The Witches
, Act
1
Scene
1
"
Brave
Macbeth...
Valour's minion
" Captain, Act
1
Scene
2
"
Why do you dress me in borrowed robes
?"
Macbeth
, Act
1
Scene
3
"
Stars
,
hide
your
fires
! Let not light see my
black
and
deep
desires,"
Macbeth
, Act
1
Scene
4
"
That
is
a step
on which I must
fall down
, or else
o'erleap
,"
Macbeth
, Act
1
Scene
4
"I do
fear
thy
nature
, it is too
full o'th'milk
of
human kindness
"
Lady Macbeth
, Act
1
Scene
5
"
Unsex
me here... make
thick
my
blood
" and "Take my
milk
for my
gall
"
Lady Macbeth
, Act
1
Scene
5
"Look the
innocent flower
, but be the
serpent
under't."
Lady Macbeth
, Act
1
Scene
6
"But only
vaulting ambition
which
o'erleaps
itself"
Macbeth
, Act
1
Scene
7
"When you
durst
do it, then you were a
man.
"
Lady Macbeth
, Act
1
Scene
7
"Is this a
dagger
which I
see before
me, the
handle towards
my
hand
?"
Macbeth
, Act
2
Scene
1
"A
dagger
of the
mind
, a
false
creation,
proceeding
from the
heat-oppressed brain
?"
Macbeth
, Act
2
Scene
1
"I could not say
'Amen'
"
Macbeth
, Act
2
Scene
2
"My
hands
are of your
colour
but I
shame
to wear a
heart
so
white
"
Lady Macbeth
, Act
2
Scene
2
"
Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood clean from my hand
?"
Macbeth
, Act
2
Scene
2
"
A little water clears us of this deed
"
Lady Macbeth
, Act
2
Scene
2
"Most
sacreligious
murder
hath broke
ope
the Lord's
anointed temple"
Macduff,
Act 2
Scene
3
"A
falcon tow'ring
in her
pride
of
place
was by a
mousing owl hawked
at and
killed.
"
Old Man
, Act
2
Scene
4
"I fear
thou play'dst
most
foully
for't"
Banquo
, Act
3
Scene
1
"
Upon my head they placed a fruitless crown and a barren sceptre in my gripe
"
Macbeth
, Act
3
Scene
1
"Be
innocent
of the
knowledge
,
dearest chuck
" Macbeth, Act
3
Scene
2
"
O
,
full
of
scorpions
is my
mind
"
Macbeth
, Act
3
Scene
2
"We have
scorched
the
snake
, not
killed
it"
Macbeth
, Act
3
Scene
2
"
I am cabined, cribbed, confined
"
Macbeth,
Act
3
Scene
4
"
Never
shake
thy gory
locks
at
me
!"
Macbeth
, Act
3
Scene
4
"My
lord is
often
thus
, and
hath
been from his
youth
," and "Are you a
man
?"
Lady Macbeth,
Act
3
Scene
4
"
Security
is
mortals'
chiefest
enemy
"
Hecate,
Act 3
Scene 1.
(
Security
here means
overconfidence)
"By the pricking of my
thumbs
, something
wicked
this way comes;"
Second
Witch
, 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
against
him"
Third
Apparition, Act
4
Scene
1
"
Bleed
,
bleed
, pour
country.
"
Macduff
, Act
4
Scene
3
"
Fit
to
govern
?
No
, not to
live.
"
Macduff
, Act
4
Scene
1
"
Dispute
it
like a man.
"
Malcolm
, Act
4
Scene
3
"But I must also
feel it as a man
;"
Macduff
, Act
4
Scene
3
"Out
damned spot
! Out, I say!"
Lady Macbeth,
Act
5
Scene
1
"
The Thane of Fife had a wife. Where is she now?
"
Lady Macbeth
, Act
5
Scene
1
""All the
perfumes
of
Arabia
cannot
sweeten
this
little hand. O
, O,
O.
"
Lady Macbeth
, Act
5
Scene
1
"
Unnatural
deeds do breed
unnatural troubles
"
Doctor
, Act
5
Scene
1
"
Bring me no more reports
" Macbeth, Act
5
Scene
3
"And all our
yesterdays
have lighted
fools
the way to
dusty
death.
Out
,
out
,
brief
candle." Macbeth, Act
5
Scene
5
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