Many quotables relevant to our Trumpian times:
“Fair is foul, and foul is fair.”
“What bloody man is that?”
“So foul and fair a day I have not seen.”
“Or have we eaten of the insane root/That takes the reason prisoner?”
“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.”
“Present fears/Are less than horrible imaginings.”
“There’s no art/To find the mind’s construction in the face:/He was a gentleman on whom I built/An absolute trust.”
“Unsex me here,/And fill me from the crown to the toe top full/Of direst cruelty!”
“Look like the innocent flower,/But be the serpent under ‘t.”
“I have no spur/To prick the sides of my intent, but only/Vaulting ambition which o’er-leaps itself”
“I have bought/Golden opinions of all sorts of people.”
“Bring forth men-children only.”
“There’s husbandry in heaven;/Their candles are all out.”
“Methought I heard a voice cry, ‘Sleep no more!’”
“The primrose way to the everlasting bonfire.”
“Confusion now hath made his masterpiece.”
“There’s nothing serious in mortality,/All is but toys; renown and grace is dead.”
“A deed of dreadful note.”
“Come, seeling night,/Scarf up the tender eye of pitiful day.”
“But now I am cabined, cribbed, confined, bound in/To saucy doubts and fears.”
“I am in blood/Stepped in so far that, should I wade no more,/Returning were as tedious as go o’er.”
“Be bloody, bold, and resolute.”
“I have lived long enough: my way of life/Is fall’n into the sear”
“I have supped full with horrors.’
“To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,/Creeps in this petty pace from day to day”
“They have tied me to a stake; I cannot fly,/But bear-like I must fight the course.”