| “yet do i fear that thy nature,It is too full o’ th’ milk of human kindnessTo catch the nearest way” Act1 scene 5 lines 16-18 | But I worry about whether or not you have what it takes to seize the crown. You are too full of the milk of human kindness to strike aggressively at your first opportunity |
| “Hie thee hither,That I may pour my spirits in thine earAnd chastise with the valor of my tongueAll that impedes thee from the golden round” act 1 scene 5 lines 25-28 | Hurry home so I can persuade you and talk you out of whatever’s keeping you from going after the crown |
| “Come, you spiritsThat tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here,And fill me from the crown to the toe top-fullOf direst cruelty.” act 1 scene 5 lines 40-43 | Come, you spirits that asist murderous thoughts, make me less like a woman and more like a man, and fill me from head to toe with deadly cruelty! |
| “make thick my blood.Stop up the access and passage to remorse” act 1 scene 5 lines 43 | Thicken my blood and clog up my veins so I won’t feel remorse |
| “Come to my woman’s breasts,And take my milk for gall,” act 1 scene 5 line 47-48 | Come to my female breast and turn my mother’s milk into poisonous acid |
| “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 darkTo cry “Hold, hold!” ” Act 1 scene 5 lines 49-54 | Come, thick night, and cover the world in the darkest smoke of hell, so that my sharp knife can’t see the wound it cuts open, and so heaven can’t peep through the darkness and cry, “No! Stop!” |
| “Thy letters have transported me beyondThis ignorant present, and I feel nowThe future in the instant.” Act 1 scene 5 line 56-58 | Your letter has transported me from the present moment, when who knows what will happen, and has made me feel like the future is already here. |
| “Look like th’ innocent flower,But be the serpent under ‘t” Act 1 scene 5 lines 64-65 | You should look like an innocent flower, but be like the snake that hides underneath the flower. |
| “MACBETHWe will proceed no further in this business.” | We can’t go on with this plan. |
| “LADY MACBETHWas the hope drunkWherein you dressed yourself?” | Were you drunk when you seemed so hopeful before? |
| “I would, while it was smiling in my face,Have plucked my nipple from his boneless gumsAnd dashed the brains out, had I so sworn as youHave done to this.” | But even as the baby was smiling up at me, I would have plucked my nipple out of its mouth and smashed its brains out against a wall if I had sworn to do that the same way you have sworn to do this. |
| “Had he not resembledMy father as he slept, I had done ‘t.” | If Duncan hadn’t reminded me of my father when I saw him sleeping, I would have killed him myself. |
| “MACBETHStars, hide your fires;Let not light see my black and deep desires.” | Stars, hide your light so no one can see the terrible desires within me. |
Lady Macbeth quotes (mostly act 1 scene 5)
July 4, 2019