Lady Macbeth Quotes

Question 1

What are Lady Macbeth’s first few lines (other that the reading of the letter)?

Answer 1

“Glamis thou art, and Cawdor, and shalt be
What thou art promis’d; yet I do fear that thy nature,
It is too full o’th’milk of human kindness
To catch the nearest way.”

Question 2

What quotes show that Lady Macbeth wants masculine qualities?

Answer 2

“Come, you spirits
That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here
And fill me from the crown to the toe topfull
Of direst cruelty; make thick my blood
Stop up th’access and passage to remorse”
“Come to my woman’s breasts
And take my milk for gall”
“Come, thick night,
And pall thee in the dunnest smoke of hell,
That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,
Nor heaven peep through the blanket of the dark”

Question 3

How is Lady Macbeth presented as deceitful in Act 1?

Answer 3

“To beguile the time,
Look like the time, bear welcome in your eye,
Your hand, your tongue; look like th’innocent flower,
But be the serpent under’t”
“Who dares receive it other,
As we shall make our griefs and clamour roar
Upon his death?”

Question 4

How is she persuasive in Act 1?

Answer 4

“And live a coward in thine own esteem,
Letting ‘I dare not’ wait upon ‘I would’,
like the poor cat i’th’adage?”
“But screw your courage to the sticking place,
and we’ll not fail”

Question 5

What quotes show her insanity?

Answer 5

"Out, damned spot! Out, I say!"
"One, two"
"Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him"
"What, will these hands ne'er be clean?"
"Here's the smell of blood still"
"To bed, to bed, to bed"
"Come, come, come"`
"It is an accustomed action with her, to seem thus washing her hands"-Gentlewoman

Question 6

What two quotes show irony regarding washing hands?

Answer 6

“A little water clears us of our deed” and

“What, will these hands ne’er be clean?”

Question 7

What quote shows that Lady Macbeth till has some humanity?

Answer 7

“Had he not resembled

My father as he slept, I had done’t”

Question 8

What quote shows irony regarding her future insanity in Act 1?

Answer 8

“These deeds must not be thought

After these ways; so, it will make us mad”

Question 9

What quote by Macduff shows that Lady Macbeth has deceived everyone?

Answer 9

“O gentle lady,
‘Tis not for you to hear what I can speak,
The repetition in a woman’s ear
Would murder as it fell,”

Question 10

What quote reflects Lady Macbeth’s cruelty and her ambition for Macbeth?

Answer 10

“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”