“We hear our bloody cousins are bestow’d/ In England and in Ireland; not confessing/ Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers/ With strange invention: but of that to-morrow;/ When thererwithal we shall have cause of state/ Craving us jointly. Hie you to horse: adieu,/ Till you return at night. Goes Fleance with you?” (3, 1, 31-37)

 

“To be thus is nothing;/ But to be safely thus: our fears in Banquo” (3, 1, 50-51)

 

“So is he mine; and in such bloody distance,/ That every minute of his being thrusts/ Against my near’st of life; and though I could/ With barefac’d power sweep him from my sight,/ And bid my will avouch it, yet I must not,” (3, 1, 119-123)

 

“’Tis safer to be that which we destroy,/ Than, by destruction, dwell in doubtful joy” (3, 2, 8-9)

 

“Things without all remedy/ Should be without regard: what’s done is done” (3, 2, 13-14)

 

“better be with the dead,/ Whom we, to gain our peace, have sent to peace,/ Than on the torture of the mind to lie/ In restless ecstasy” (3, 2, 22-25)

 

“Thou marvell’st at my words: but hold thee still;/ Things bad begun make strong themselves by ill:” (3, 2, 56-57)

 

“There the grown serpent lies; the worm that’s fled/ Hath nature that in time will venom breed,/ No teeth for the present.” (3, 4, 30-32)

 

“It will have blood; they say, blood will have blood:/ Stones have been known to move, and trees to speak;/ Augurs, and understood relations, have/ By maggot-pies, and choughs, and rooks, brought forth/ The secret’st man of blood. What is the night?” (3, 4, 128-132)

 

“For mine own good,/ All causes shall give way: I am in blood/ Step’t in so far that, should I wade no more,/ Returning were as tedious as go o’er:/ Strange things I have in head, that will to hand;/ Which must be acted ere they may be scann’d” (3, 4, 141-147)

 

“He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear/ His hopes ’bove wisdom, grace, and fear:/ And you all know, security/ Is mortals’ chiefest enemy” (3, 5, 30-33)