By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes.
William Shakespeare
- Author
- William Shakespeare
- Year
- 1623
- Genre
- tragedy
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'Something wicked this way comes' -- the witches announcing Macbeth himself -- has had a long second life as a title, most famously Ray Bradbury's 1962 novel. The couplet is 'Double, double toil and trouble', not 'bubble, bubble'. And the play carries its own quotation superstition: actors traditionally will not say its name inside a theatre, preferring 'the Scottish play' -- a piece of quote-culture now as famous as the lines.
Double, double toil and trouble; Fire burn and cauldron bubble.
William Shakespeare
Fair is foul, and foul is fair.
William Shakespeare
If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well it were done quickly.
William Shakespeare
I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other.
William Shakespeare
She should have died hereafter- there would have been time for such a thing.
William Shakespeare
There’s no art To find the mind’s construction in the face
William Shakespeare
What's done cannot be undone.
William Shakespeare