“A heavy summons lies like lead upon me, / And yet I would not sleep. Merciful powers, / Restrain in me the cursed thoughts that nature / Gives way to in repose!Act II, Scene 1 · Banquo · ★★★☆☆→
“I dreamt last night of the three Weird Sisters: / To you they have show’d some truth.Act II, Scene 1 · Banquo · ★★★☆☆→
“The obscure bird / Clamour’d the live-long night. Some say the earth / Was feverous, and did shake.Act II, Scene 3 · Lennox · ★★★☆☆→
“And Duncan’s horses (a thing most strange and certain) / Beauteous and swift, the minions of their race, / Turn’d wild in nature, broke their stalls, flung out, / Contending ’gainst obedience, as they would make / War with mankind.Act II, Scene 4 · ★★★☆☆→
“If there come truth from them / (As upon thee, Macbeth, their speeches shine) / Why, by the verities on thee made good, / May they not be my oracles as well, / And set me up in hope?Act III, Scene 1 · Banquo · ★★★☆☆→
“Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak; / Augurs, and understood relations, have / By magot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth / The secret’st man of blood.—Act III, Scene 4 · Macbeth · ★★★☆☆→
“If charnel houses and our graves must send / Those that we bury back, our monuments / Shall be the maws of kites.Act III, Scene 4 · Macbeth · ★★★☆☆→
“And, which is worse, all you have done / Hath been but for a wayward son, / Spiteful and wrathful; who, as others do, / Loves for his own ends, not for you.Act III, Scene 5 · ★★★☆☆→
“Some holy angel / Fly to the court of England, and unfold / His message ere he come, that a swift blessing / May soon return to this our suffering country / Under a hand accurs’d!Act III, Scene 6 · Lennox · ★★★☆☆→
“Horrible sight!—Now I see ’tis true; / For the blood-bolter’d Banquo smiles upon me, / And points at them for his.—Act IV, Scene 1 · Macbeth · ★★★☆☆→