“I am in this earthly world, where to do harm / Is often laudable; to do good sometime / Accounted dangerous follyScene 2 · Lady Macduff · ★★★★★→
“But cruel are the times, when we are traitors, / And do not know ourselves; when we hold rumour / From what we fear, yet know not what we fear, / But float upon a wild and violent sea / Each way and move—Scene 2 · ★★★★☆→
“Wisdom! to leave his wife, to leave his babes, / His mansion, and his titles, in a place / From whence himself does fly? He loves us not: / He wants the natural touch; for the poor wren, / The most diminutive of birds, will fight, / Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.Scene 2 · Lady Macduff · ★★★★☆→
“His flight was madness: when our actions do not, / Our fears do make us traitors.Scene 2 · Lady Macduff · ★★★★☆→
“Then the liars and swearers are fools: for there are liars and swearers enow to beat the honest men and hang up them.Scene 2 · ★★★☆☆→
“If he were dead, you'ld weep for him: if you would not, it were a good sign that I should quickly have a new father.Scene 2 · ★★☆☆☆→
“I doubt some danger does approach you nearly: / If you will take a homely man’s advice, / Be not found here; hence, with your little ones.Scene 2 · ★★☆☆☆→