1. Ambition Quotes

Question 1

Macbeth, Act 1 Scene 3 (macbeths ambition to be king)

Answer 1

‘Why do I yield to that suggestion, whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs’

Question 2

Macbeth, Act 1 scene 4 (‘stars, hide your fires…’)

Answer 2

‘Stars, hide your fires! Let not light see my black and deep desires’

Question 3

Lady Macbeth Act 1 scene 5 (saying mabeth needs to man up and kill duncan)

Answer 3

‘I do fear thy nature, it is too ful o’th’milk of human kindness to catch the nearest way

Question 4

Lady Macbeth, Act 1 scene 5 (‘thou wouldst be great…’)

Answer 4

‘Thou wouldst be great, art not without ambition, but without the illness should attend it

Question 5

Lady Macbeth, Act 1 scene 5 (‘look, like th’innocent flower…’)

Answer 5

‘Look like th’innocent flower, but be the serpent under’t’

Question 6

Macbeth, act 1 scene 7 (‘but only vaulting ambition’)

Answer 6

‘but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other’

Question 7

Macbeth, act 3 scene 1 (‘to be thus is nothing…’)

Answer 7

‘To be thus is nothing, but to be safely thus’

Question 8

Lady Macbeth, act 3 scene 2 (‘noughts had, all’s spent…’)

Answer 8

‘Nought’s had, all’s spent, where our desire is got without content.’