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It is the nature of ambition to make men liars and cheats, and hide the truth in their breasts, and show, like jugglers, another thing in their mouths: to cut all friendships and enmities to the measure of their interest, and to make a good countenance without the help of a good will. - Sallust (Caius Sallustius Crispus) Ambition breaks the ties of blood, and forgets the obligations of gratitude. - Sir Walter Scott Ambition is no cure for love! - Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (canto I, st. 27) O fading honours of the dead! O high ambition, lowly laid! - Sir Walter Scott, The Lay of the Last Minstrel (canto II, st. 10) It is the constant fault and inseparable ill quality of ambition never to look behind it. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Take away ambition and vanity, and where will be your heroes and patriots? - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) When once ambition has passed its natural limits, its progress is boundless. - Seneca (Lucius Annaeus Seneca) Ambition's like a circle on the water, Which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'Till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. - William Shakespeare Dreams, indeed, are ambition; for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. And I hold ambition of so airy and light a quality, that it is but a shadow's shadow. - William Shakespeare I charge thee, fling away ambition: By that sin fell the angels. - William Shakespeare Lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber-upward turns his face; And when he once obtains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. - William Shakespeare Vaulting ambition, which overleaps itself. - William Shakespeare Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings, melts them. - William Shakespeare Which dreams indeed are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is merely the shadow of a dream. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Guildenstern at II, ii) But 'tis a common proof That lowliness is young ambition's ladder, Whereto the climber upward turns his face; But when he once attains the upmost round, He then unto the ladder turns his back, Looks in the clouds, scorning the base degrees By which he did ascend. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Brutus at II, i) Ambition's debt is paid. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Brutus at III, i) The noble Brutus Hath told you Caesar was ambitious. If it were so, it was a grievous fault, And grievously hat Caesar answered it. - William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar (Antony at III, i) Ill-weaved ambition, how much art thou shrunk! When that this body did contain a spirit, A kingdom for it was too small a bound; But now two paces of the vilest earth Is room enough. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Fourth, Part I (Prince Henry at V, iv) Virtue is choked with foul ambition And charity chased hence by rancor's hand; Foul subornation is predominant And equity exiled your highness' land. - William Shakespeare, King Henry the Sixth, Part II (Gloucester at III, i) I have no spur To prick the sides on my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on th' other,-- - William Shakespeare, Macbeth (Macbeth at I, vii) By that sin fell the angels. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at III, ii) Mark but my fall and that that ruined me. Cromwell, I charge thee, fling away ambition! By that sin fell the angels; how can man then (The Image of his Maker) hope to win by it? - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry the Eighth (Wolsey at IV, i) Farewell? a long farewell to all my greatness! This is the state of man: to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope; to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him; The third day comes a frost, a killing frost, And when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a-ripening, nips his root, And then he falls as I do. - William Shakespeare, The Life of King Henry VIII (Wolsay at III,ii) Ambition is like hunger; it obeys no law but its appetite. - Henry Wheeler Shaw (used pseudonyms Josh Billings and Uncle Esek) One may easily enough guard against ambition till five-and-twenty. It is not ambition's day. - William Shenstone Displaying page 6 of 8 for this topic: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 [6] 7 8
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