Virtue is choked with foul ambition.

—William Shakespeare

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William Shakespeare (c. 23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon" or simply "the Bard"....

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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

I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow.

—William Shakespeare

I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other.

—William Shakespeare

Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

—William Shakespeare

Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.

—William Shakespeare

More quotations tagged with “ambition”

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

I hold ambition of so light a quality that is is but a shadow's shadow.

—William Shakespeare

I have no spur to prick the sides of my intent, but only vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself, and falls on the other.

—William Shakespeare

Ambition, the soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss, than gain which darkens him.

—William Shakespeare

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

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