Lady Macbeth is a leading character in William Shakespeare’s tragedy Macbeth. As the wife of the play’s tragic hero, Macbeth (a Scottish nobleman), Lady Macbeth goads her husband into committing regicide, after which she becomes queen of Scotland. Here is a collection of Lady Macbeth quotes from the play.
“Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe topful Of direst cruelty! make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse.”
-Lady Macbeth
“Your hand, your tongue: look like th’ innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t.”
-Lady Macbeth
“Glamis, thou art; and Cawdor; and shalt be What thou art promised. Yet do I fear thy nature; It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness To catch the nearest way.”
-Lady Macbeth
“What beast was’t, then, That made you break this enterprise to me?”
-Lady Macbeth
“Was the hope drunk Wherein you dress’d yourself? hath it slept since?”
-Lady Macbeth
“I have given suck, and know How tender ’tis to love the babe that milks me: I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.”
-Lady Macbeth
“I am settled, and bend up Each corporal agent to this terrible feat.”
-Lady Macbeth
“We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we’ll not fail.”
-Lady Macbeth
“What beast was’t, then, That made you break this enterprise to me?”
-Lady Macbeth
“Give me the daggers: the sleeping and the dead Are but as pictures: ’tis the eye of childhood That fears a painted devil.”
-Lady Macbeth
“A little water clears us of this deed: How easy is it, then! Your constancy Hath left you unattended.”
-Lady Macbeth
“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!”
-Lady Macbeth
“Yet here’s a spot.”
-Lady Macbeth
“Out, damned spot! out, I say!”
-Lady Macbeth
“What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?”
-Lady Macbeth
“Here’s the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand.”
-Lady Macbeth
“What’s done cannot be undone.”
-Lady Macbeth
“I would, while it was smiling in my face, Have pluck’d my nipple from his boneless gums, And dash’d the brains out, had I so sworn as you Have done to this.”
-Lady Macbeth
“What beast was’t, then, That made you break this enterprise to me?”
-Lady Macbeth
“Look like th’ innocent flower, But be the serpent under’t.”
-Lady Macbeth
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