Ambition Quotations

Question 1

Macbeth Act 1 Scene 3

Answer 1

“My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical,
Shakes so my single state of man that function
Is smothered in surmise”

Question 2

Ross Act 2 Scene 4

Answer 2

“‘Gainst nature still!
Thriftless ambition, that wilt ravin up
Thine own life’s means!”

Question 3

Macbeth Act 3 Scene 4

Answer 3

“I am in blood
Stepped in so far that should I wade no more,
Returning were as tedious as go o’er.”

Question 4

Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5

Answer 4

“Thou wouldst be great,
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it.”

Question 5

Banquo Act 3 Scene 1

Answer 5

“May they not be my oracles as well,

And set me up in hope? But hush! No more.”

Question 6

Lady Macbeth Act 1 Scene 5

Answer 6

“All that impedes thee from the golden round,
Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem
To have thee crowned withal.”

Question 7

“either thou, Macbeth,
Or else my sword with an unbattered edge
I sheathe again undeeded.”

Answer 7

Macduff Act 5 Scene 7

Question 8

Macbeth Act 5 Scene 5

Answer 8

“Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage
And then is heard no more.”

Question 9

Macbeth Act 1 Scene 4

Answer 9

Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires”

Question 10

Macbeth Act 1 Scene 7

Answer 10

“I have no spur To prick the sides only Vaulting ambition, which oerleaps itself”