Quotes of the Witches in Macbeth
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble. – Macbeth
By the pricking of my thumb, something wicked this way comes. – Second Witch
Fair is foul, and foul is fair. – First Witch
Caught in the web of fate, Macbeth dances with the witches. – Unknown
All hail, Macbeth, hail to thee, Thane of Cawdor! – Second Witch
When the battle’s lost and won. – First Witch
Though his bark cannot be lost, yet it shall be tempest-tossed. – Second Witch
Something wicked this way comes. – Third Witch
Beware Macduff, Beware the Thane of Fife. – First Apparition
Macbeth shall never vanquish’d be until Great Birnam Wood to high Dunsinane Hill shall come against him. – Second Apparition
Is this a dagger which I see before me, the handle toward my hand? – Macbeth
The weird sisters hand in hand, posters of the sea and land. – First Witch
I conjure you, by that which you profess, howe’er you come to know it, answer me. – Macbeth
I will be satisfied. Deny me this, and an eternal curse fall on you! – Macbeth
When shall we three meet again in thunder, lightning, or in rain? – First Witch
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. – Banquo
It will have blood, they say; blood will have blood. – Macbeth
What’s done cannot be undone. – Lady Macbeth
Out, damned spot! Out, I say! – Lady Macbeth
Yet do I fear thy nature; it is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindness. – Lady Macbeth
Fair is foul and foul is fair. – Second Witch
A little water clears us of this deed. – Lady Macbeth
Look like the innocent flower, but be the serpent under ’t. – Lady Macbeth
Thou hast it now: King, Cawdor, Glamis, all, as the weird women promised, and I fear thou played’st most foully for ’t. – Banquo
I dare do all that may become a man; Who dares do more is none. – Macbeth
Yet I will try the last. Before my body I throw my warlike shield. Lay on, Macduff, and damned be he who first cries, ‘Hold, enough!’ – Macbeth
Come what come may, time and the hour runs through the roughest day. – Macbeth
This supernatural soliciting cannot be ill, cannot be good. – Macbeth
Out, out, brief candle! – Macbeth
Ay, in the catalogue ye go for men. – Macduff
But screw your courage to the sticking place and we’ll not fail. – Lady Macbeth
Out, out, brief candle! Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. – Macbeth
The very firstlings of my heart shall be the firstlings of my hand. – Macbeth
If it were done when ’tis done, then ’twere well it were done quickly. – Macbeth
There’s daggers in men’s smiles. – Donalbain
I must become a borrower of the night for a dark hour or twain. – Banquo
Confusion now hath made his masterpiece. – Macduff
Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. – Ross
I have supped full with horrors. – Macbeth
When our actions do not, our fears do make us traitors. – Lady Macbeth
The king-becoming graces are justice, verity, temperance, stableness, bounty, perseverance, mercy, lowliness, devotion, patience, courage, fortitude. – Malcolm
This dead butcher and his fiend-like queen. – Lennox
I have thee not, yet I see thee still. – Macbeth
I am in blood, stepped in so far that should I wade no more, returning were as tedious as go o’er. – Macbeth
There’s husbandry in heaven, their candles are all out. – Banquo
Be innocent of the knowledge, dearest chuck. – Macbeth
What a man dare, I dare. – Lady Macbeth
Till Birnam Wood remove to Dunsinane I cannot taint with fear. – Macbeth
And make our faces vizards to our hearts, disguising what they are. – Macduff
What’s done is done. – Lady Macbeth