Top+Ten+Quotes

1) **"Fair is foul and foul is fair."** --Act 1, Scene 1, Line 10: The witches in conversation

2) **"And oftentimes, to win us to our harm,** --Act 1, Scene 3, Lines 122-3: Banquo to Macbeth about the witches
 * The instruments of darkness tell us truths." **

3) **"There's no art to find the mind's construction in the face."** --Act 1, Scene 4, Lines 10-11: King Duncan to Malcolm

4) **"Stars, hide your fires:** --Act 1, Scene 5, Lines 50-3: Macbeth to himself
 * Let not light see my black and deep desires: **
 * The eye wink at the hand; yet let that be **
 * Which the eye fears, when it is done, to see." **

5) **"If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well** --Act 1, Scene 7, Lines 1-7: Macbeth to himself
 * It were done quickly. If th'assassination **
 * Could trammel up the consequence, and catch, **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">With his surcease, success; that but this blow **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Might be the be-all and end-all-here, **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">But here, upon this bank and shoal of time, **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">We'd jump the life to come." **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">6) **"False face must hide what the false heart doth know."** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">--Act 1, Scene 8, Line 82: Macbeth to his wife

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">7) **"Is this a dagger I see before me,** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">--Act 2, Scene 1, Lines 33-39: Macbeth to himself
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">I have thee not, and yet I see thee still. **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Art thou not, fatal vision, sensible **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">To feeling as to sight, or art thou but **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">A dagger of the mind, a false creation, **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Proceeding from the heat-oppressed brain?" **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">8) **"Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep!"** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">--Act 2, Scene 2, Lines 34-5: imaginary voice to Macbeth

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">9) **"Out, damned spot! Out, I say! One: two:** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">--Act 5, Scene 1, Lines 34-39: Lady Macbeth to herself while sleepwalking
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">why, then 'tis time to do't. Hell is murky. Fie, my lord, **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Fie! A soldier, and afeard? What need we fear who **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Knows it, when none can call our power accompt? **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him?" **

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">10) **"Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">--Act 5, Scene 5, Lines 19-28: Macbeth to himself
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">To the last syllable of recorded time; **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">And all our yesterdays have lighted fools **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle! **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">That struts and frets his hour upon the stage **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">And then is heard no more. It is a tale **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Signifying nothing." **