"Look like the innocent flower, / But be the serpent under't"
"Yet do I fear thy nature; / It is too full o' th' milk of human kindness"
"Unsex me here, / And fill me... top-full / Of direst cruelty!"
"Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?"
A
"I have no spur... but only vaulting ambition"
"When you durst do it, then you were a man"
"Full of scorpions is my mind, dear wife!"
"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"
"Life's... a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon the stage"
"There's daggers in men's smiles"
B
"Stars, hide your fires; let not light see my black and deep desires"
"A little water clears us of this deed"
"Thou hast it now: king, Cawdor, Glamis, all... and I fear thou playedst most foully for't"
"By the pricking of my thumbs, / Something wicked this way comes"
"All my pretty ones? Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?"
C
"If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me"
"Double, double toil and trouble; / Fire burn and cauldron bubble"
"I dare do all that may become a man; / Who dares do more is none"
Created May 10, 2026
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