Lady Macduff Quotes in Macbeth

I am in this earthly world, where to do harm / Is often laudable; to do good sometime / Accounted dangerous folly

He has no children.—All my pretty ones? / Did you say all?—O hell-kite!—All? / What, all my pretty chickens and their dam / At one fell swoop?

Wisdom! to leave his wife, to leave his babes, / His mansion, and his titles, in a place / From whence himself does fly? He loves us not: / He wants the natural touch; for the poor wren, / The most diminutive of birds, will fight, / Her young ones in her nest, against the owl.

What, you egg!

His flight was madness: when our actions do not, / Our fears do make us traitors.

The castle of Macduff I will surprise; / Seize upon Fife; give to th' edge o' th' sword / His wife, his babes, and all unfortunate souls / That trace him in his line.

He has kill’d me, mother: / Run away, I pray you!

Then the liars and swearers are fools: for there are liars and swearers enow to beat the honest men and hang up them.

Your castle is surpris’d; your wife and babes / Savagely slaughter’d.

If he were dead, you'ld weep for him: if you would not, it were a good sign that I should quickly have a new father.