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IMPORTANT QUOTES ‘MACBETH’

Act 1:
First Witch: “When shall we three meet again / In thunder, lightning, or in rain?”
All three witches: “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”
Sergeant: “but all’s too weak; / For brave Macbeth, – well he deserves that name, / Disdaining fortune, with his brandish’d steel, / Which smok’d with bloody execution, / Like / valour’s minion carv’d out his passage / Till he fac’d the slave.”
Ross: “Bellona’s bridegroom”
Duncan: “No more that Thane of Cawdor shall deceive / Our bosom interest. Go pronounce his present death, / And with his former title greet Macbeth.”
Macbeth: “So foul and fair a day I have not seen”
Banquo: “And oftentimes, to win us to our harm / The instruments of darkness tell us truths”
Macbeth: “This supernatural soliciting / Cannot be ill, cannot be good. . . and nothing is / But what is not”
Macbeth: “At more time / The interim having weigh’d it, let us speak / Our free hearts each to other”
Duncan: “There’s no art / To find the mind’s construction in the face.”
Duncan: “We will establish our estate upon / Our eldest, Malcolm, whom we name hereafter / The Prince of Cumberland.”
Macbeth: “The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else o’er-leap, / For in my way it lies. Stars, hide your fires! / Let not light see my black and deep desires”
Lady Macbeth: “Yet I do fear thy nature; / It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness / To catch the nearest way”
Lady Macbeth: “Unsex me here, / And fill me from the crown to the toe top full / Of direst cruelty”
Lady Macbeth: “Look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under’t.’
Duncan: “Fair and noble hostess, / We are your guest tonight.’

Macbeth: “If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well / It were done quickly; if the assassination / Could tramme up the consequence, and catch / With his surcease success; that but this blow / Might be the be-all and the end-all here . . . I

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