Macbeth Ambition Quotes Flashcards
‘The ____ is behind!’
What Act?
‘The greatest is behind!’
Act 1 Scene 3
‘Whose ____ image doth ____ my ____ and make my ____ ____ knock at my ____, against the ____ of ____.’
What Act?
‘Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair and make my seated heart knock at my ribs, against the use of nature.’
Act 1 Scene 3
‘whose murder yet it but ____, ____ so my ____ ____ of ____ that ____ is ____ in ____ and nothing is but ____ is not.’
What Act?
‘whose murder yet it but fantastical, shakes so my single state of man that function is smother’d in surmise and nothing is but what is not.’
Act 1 Scene 3
‘If ____ will have me king, ____, ____ may ____ me, without my ____.’
What Act?
‘If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me, without my stir.’
Act 1 Scene 3
Macbeth in the letter talking about the witches
‘I ____ in ____ to question them ____.’
What Act?
‘I burned in desire to question them further.’
Act 1 Scene 5
Lady Macbeth to Macbeth:
‘Thou wouldst be ____; art not ____ ____.’
What Act?
‘Thou wouldst be great; art not without ambition.’
Act 1 Scene 5
Lady Macbeth says:
‘That my ____ ____ see not the ____ it makes,’
What Act?
‘That my keen knife see not the wound it makes,’
Act 1 Scene 5
Lady Macbeth says:
‘____ Glamis! ____ Cawdor! ____ than both,’
What Act?
‘Great Glamis! Worthy Cawdor! Greater than both,’
Act 1 Scene 5
Lady Macbeth says:
‘This ____ present, and I ____ now the ____ in the ____.’
What Act?
‘This ignorant present, and I feel now the future in the instant.’
Act 1 Scene 5
Macbeth says:
‘I have no ____ to ____ the sides of my ____, but only ____ ____, which ____ itself and ____ on the ____.’
What Act?
‘I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself and falls on the other.’
Act 1 Scene 7
When Macbeth realises he does not want to kill Duncan:
‘We will ____ no ____ in this business’
What Act?
‘We will proceed no further in this business’
Act 1 Scene 7
