Lady Macbeth Quotes

(1.2.84-86) For they are actions that a man might play; But I have that within which passeth show, These but the trappings and the suits of woe. (1)

(1.2.129-132) O, that this too solid flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix’d His canon ’gainst self-slaughter! (3)

(1.4.84-86) Unhand me, gentlemen. By heaven, I’ll make a ghost of him that lets me! I say, away!—Go on, I’ll follow thee. [Exeunt Ghost and Hamlet]. (3)

(1.5.29-31) Haste me to know ’t, that I, with wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love, May sweep to my revenge. (4)

(1.5.148-150) “Upon my sword.“ “We have sworn, my lord, already.” “Indeed, upon my sword, indeed.” (3)

(2.1.79-82) Pale as his shirt, his knees knocking each other, And with a look so piteous in

Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain! O, vengeance! (3)

(3.1.7-8) Nor do we find him forward to be sounded, But, with a crafty madness, keeps aloof (1)

(3.1.56-60) To be, or not to be: that is the question. Whether ’tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them. (3)

(3.1.119-121) Get thee to a nunnery; why wouldst thou be a breeder of sinners? I am myself indifferent honest, but yet I could accuse me of such things that it were better my mother had not borne me. (4)

(3.4.22-24) “What, ho! help, help, help!” “How now! A rat? Dead, for a ducat, dead!” “O, I am slain!” (5)

(3.4.130-134) “To whom do you speak this?” “Do you see nothing there?” “Nothing at all, yet all that is I see.” “Nor did you nothing hear?” ”No, nothing but ourselves.”(5)

(4.1.7-8) Mad as the seas and wind, when both contend Which is the mightier. (5)

(4.3.2) How dangerous is it that this man goes loose! (3)

(4.4.65-66) O, from this time forth, My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!