lady macbeth character quotes

Question 1

“yet do i fear… (act 1)

Answer 1

thy nature; it is too full o’ the milk of human kindness” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 2

“come you spirits that tend on mortal thoughts… (act 1)

Answer 2

unsex me here and fill me from the crown to the toe top-full of direst cruelty!” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 3

“come to my woman’s breasts… (act 1)

Answer 3

and take my milk for gall, you murdering ministers”

Question 4

“come, thick… (act 1)

Answer 4

night and pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 5

“your face my thane is a… (act 1)

Answer 5

book where men may read strange matters” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 6

“look like the innocent… (act 1)

Answer 6

flower, but be the serpent under’t” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 7

“to alter favour ever… (act 1)

Answer 7

is to fear: leave all the rest to me” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 8

was the hope…. (act 1)

Answer 8

drunk wherein you dress’d yourself? hath it slept since?” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 9

“and live a coward… (act 1)

Answer 9

in thine own esteem, letting “I dare not” wait upon “I would” like the poor cat” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 10

“I have given… (act 1)

Answer 10

suck and know how tender ‘tis to love the babe that milks me” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 11

“I would while it was smiling in my face… (act 1)

Answer 11

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)

Question 12

“had he not resembled… (act 2)

Answer 12

my father as I slept, I had done’t” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 13

“A foolish thought to say… (act 2)

Answer 13

a sorry sight” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 14

“Why did you bring… (act 2)

Answer 14

these daggers from the place?” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 15

“my hands are of your colour… (act 2)

Answer 15

but I shame to wear a heart so white” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 16

“Tis safer to be that which we destroy… (act 3)

Answer 16

than by destruction dwell in doubtful joy” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 17

“what’s done… (act 3)

Answer 17

is done” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 18

“gentle my lord… (act 3)

Answer 18

sleek o’er your rugged looks; be bright and jovial among your guests to-night” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 19

“sit, worthy friends… (act 3)

Answer 19

my lord is often thus” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 20

“this is the very… (act 3)

Answer 20

painting of your fear: this is the air- drawn dagger which, you said, led you to Duncan (Lady Macbeth)

Question 21

“you lack the… (act 3)

Answer 21

season of all natures, sleep” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 22

“the Thane of Fife… (act 5)

Answer 22

had a wife: where is she now? What, will these hands n’er be clean?” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 23

“out, damned… (act 5)

Answer 23

spot! out, I say!” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 24

“Hell… (act 5)

Answer 24

is murky!” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 25

“Yet who would have thought… (act 5)

Answer 25

the old man to have had so much blood in him” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 26

“Here’s the smell of… (act 5)

Answer 26

the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand. Oh, oh, oh!” (Lady Macbeth)

Question 27

“wash your hands… (act 5)

Answer 27

put on your nightgown; look not so pale.” (Lady Macbeth

Question 28

“come, come, come, come… (act 5)

Answer 28

give me your hand. What’s done cannot be undone- To bed, to bed, to bed!” (Lady Macbeth)