Lady Macbeth Quotes

“What had he done to make him fly the land?" [repeats, louder with cracked voice] “What had he done to make him fly the land?" (page no.) And what did I do to make him flee this land? [shaking head, is emotional] Fearful of Scotland’s happening and future. Oh, Scotland. Your monarchy so heinous, so damned, so feared that your men are fleeting images of the past. Gone with the wind that was a torrent of darkness among the blustery trees. Gone without a thought of kinship; to family nor duty. I should have known a man so full of human nature would chase the scorpions of suspicion in his mind that sting him to the point of no return. It can’t be. Macduff, this noble passion/ Child of integrity, hath from my soul. (Page 76, 114-115) [Shaking head]
Young maidens together unawares that marriage and love in you never discloses a path of lilies and of roses. She, in either cheek, or else so lovely born. Conquering hearts all other beauties longed, she converted love’s infidels beyond her strength. And to tie herself to such a character, Macbeth. Maybe she was in love? Though knowing her I doubt she ever felt herself in danger from ’the whim of some man’. Oh old friend, you are a formidable besmirched woman. You who no doubt gets your own way in all matters, raising your single-minded husband to the highest of men with you dark hand and ambiguous head. What is wrong is right in Scotland now and it’s all your doing. Why must you cause so much pain and rule with the hatred of a beast? The townspeople starve in the streets. The farmers no longer cultivate the crops, too sickly to serve us alone. So much to be ended, to be fixed. They say “What’s done cannot be undone.” (Page. 85,
Something that has meaning and will last. Heroic deeds like Duncan. Or ideas or writings that change the course of history, like Adomnán. Something new and un-thought before. Something to be looked at, with every new eye, women, and to leave the people united. Respect for creating something that changes humanity, not for violence and dirty sovereignty or simply because you are a man. I want Scotland our land so fair, the hills and mountains we adore, the scenery so grand and rare, to be as it was once more. I am be the Thane of Fife, a woman and a