“Two truths are told, / As happy prologues to the swelling act / Of the imperial theme.—Act I, 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!Act I, 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?Act I, Scene 3 · Macbeth · ★★★★☆→
“If you can look into the seeds of time, / And say which grain will grow, and which will not, / Speak then to me, who neither beg nor fear / Your favours nor your hate.Act I, Scene 3 · Banquo · ★★★★☆→
“If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me / Without my stir.Act I, Scene 3 · Macbeth · ★★★★☆→
“The Prince of Cumberland!—That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else o’erleap, / For in my way it lies.Act I, Scene 4 · Macbeth · ★★★★☆→
“The night has been unruly: where we lay, / Our chimneys were blown down and, as they say, / Lamentings heard i’ th’ air, strange screams of death, / And prophesying, with accents terrible, / Of dire combustion and confus’d events, / New hatch’d to the woeful time.Act II, Scene 3 · Lennox · ★★★★☆→
“’Gainst nature still: / Thriftless ambition, that will ravin up / Thine own life’s means!—Act II, Scene 4 · ★★★★☆→
“Rather than so, come, fate, into the list, / And champion me to th’ utterance!—Act III, Scene 1 · Macbeth · ★★★★☆→