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Quotation from Macbeth by William Shakespeare

“Fair is foul, and foul is fair”

William Shakespeare (spoken by Witches)

Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 1 (First Folio (1623), modernised spelling)

Portrait of William Shakespeare

The witches' chant introduces the play's world of moral inversion and equivocation.

Citation: "Fair is foul, and foul is fair" — William Shakespeare, Macbeth, Act 1, Scene 1 (First Folio (1623), modernised spelling). (id macbeth-q1)

Portrait: Portrait of William Shakespeare (1564-1646), Attributed to John Taylor, Public domain.

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