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1. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair." - (Act 1, Scene 1) The witches' opening chant.

2. "Out, damned spot! out, I say!" - (Act 5, Scene 1) Lady Macbeth's famous
sleepwalking scene.
3. "Is this a dagger which I see before me, / The handle toward my hand?" - (Act
2, Scene 1) Macbeth's soliloquy before he murders Duncan.
4. "Double, double toil and trouble; / Fire burn and cauldron bubble." - (Act 4,
Scene 1) The witches' incantation.
5. "All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." - (Act 5, Scene 1)
Lady Macbeth after she has become consumed by guilt.
6. "Beware Macduff, / Beware the Thane of Fife." - (Act 4, Scene 1) The witches'
prophecy to Macbeth.
7. "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." - (Act 5,
Scene 5) Macbeth's famous soliloquy after hearing of Lady Macbeth's death.
8. "Fair is foul, and foul is fair: / Hover through the fog and filthy air." - (Act 1,
Scene 1) The witches' concluding chant.
9. "If it were done when 'tis done, then 'twere well / It were done quickly." - (Act 1,
Scene 7) Macbeth's soliloquy contemplating whether to murder Duncan.
10. "Will all great Neptune's ocean wash this blood / Clean from my hand?" - (Act
2, Scene 2) Macbeth questioning whether he will ever be free of his guilt.
11. "False face must hide what the false heart doth know." - (Act 1, Scene 7)
Macbeth acknowledging that he must deceive others to conceal his true
intentions.
12. "I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition,
which o'erleaps itself / And falls on the other." - (Act 1, Scene 7) Macbeth
confessing that his ambition is driving him to commit murder.
13. "Yet I do fear thy nature; / It is too full o' the milk of human kindness." - (Act 1,
Scene 5) Lady Macbeth acknowledging that Macbeth may be too kind and
hesitant to pursue his ambition.
14. "To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, / Creeps in this petty pace from
day to day, / To the last syllable of recorded time." - (Act 5, Scene 5) Macbeth
reflecting on the meaninglessness of life after his wife's death.

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