“Fair is foul, and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air.Scene 1 · The Three Witches · ★★★★★→
“My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, / Shakes so my single state of man / That function is smother’d in surmise, / And nothing is but what is not.Scene 3 · Macbeth · ★★★★★→
“And oftentimes to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths; / Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s / In deepest consequence.—Scene 3 · Banquo · ★★★★★→
“All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Glamis! SECOND WITCH. All hail, Macbeth! hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! THIRD WITCH. All hail, Macbeth! that shalt be king hereafter!Scene 3 · The Three Witches · ★★★★★→
“He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear / His hopes ’bove wisdom, grace, and fear. / And you all know, security / Is mortals’ chiefest enemy.Scene 5 · ★★★★★→
“Two truths are told, / As happy prologues to the swelling act / Of the imperial theme.—Scene 3 · Macbeth · ★★★★☆→
“Lesser than Macbeth, and greater. / SECOND WITCH. / Not so happy, yet much happier. / THIRD WITCH. / Thou shalt get kings, though thou be none: / So all hail, Macbeth and Banquo!Scene 3 · The Three Witches · ★★★★☆→
“This supernatural soliciting / Cannot be ill; cannot be good. If ill, / Why hath it given me earnest of success, / Commencing in a truth? I am Thane of Cawdor: / If good, why do I yield to that suggestion / Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair, / And make my seated heart knock at my ribs, / Against the use of nature?Scene 3 · Macbeth · ★★★★☆→