Macbeth Character Quotes

MACBETH * ‘What he hath lost, noble Macbeth hath won.’ (Duncan 1:2) – Noble * ‘brave Macbeth’ – ‘Valour’s minion’ – ‘Bellona’s bridegroom’ – Noble * ‘why do I yield to that suggestion / Whose horrid image doth unfix my hair / And make my seated heart knock at my ribs,’ (Macbeth 1:3) – Ambitious * ‘If chance will have me King, why, chance may crown me, / Without my stir.’ (Macbeth 1:3) - Loyal * ‘why do you dress me / In borrowed robes?’ (Macbeth 1:3) - Loyal * ‘The Prince of Cumberland! That is a step / On which I must fall down, or else o’er –leap,’ (Macbeth 1:4) - Ambitious * ‘Stars, hide your fires! / Let not light see my black and deep desires:’ (Macbeth 1:4) – Ambitious / Immoral * ‘I have no spur/ to prick the sides of my intent, but only/ Vaulting ambition, which o’erleaps itself/ And falls on the other’ (Macbeth 1:7) - Ambitious / Immoral * ‘I fear thy nature; / It is too full o’the milk of human kindness to / To catch the nearest way.’ (Lady Macbeth 1:5) – Easily Influenced * ‘great prediction/Of noble having and of royal hope/That he seems rapt withal:’ (Banquo 1:3) – Ambitious /Immoral * ‘to win us to our harm, / The instruments of darkness tell us truths,/ Win us with honest trifles, to betray’s / In deepest consequence.’ (Banquo 1:3) - Easily Influenced * ‘My thought, whose murder yet is but fantastical, / Shakes so my single state of man’ (Macbeth 1:3) -Guilt * ‘We will proceed no further in this business’ (Macbeth 1:7) - Guilt * ‘Will all great Neptune’s ocean wash this blood/ Clean from my hand?’ (Macbeth 2:2) - Guilt * ‘get thee back; my soul is too much charged/ With blood of thine already’ (Macbeth 5:8) – Guilt * ‘Full of scorpions’ … he speaks about having to ‘sleep/ In the affliction of these terrible dreams/ That shake us nightly’ (Macbeth 3:2) – Anxiety /Weary * ‘Out, out brief candle! / Life’s but a walking shadow, a poor player / That struts and frets his hour upon