John Webster Quotes About Ambition

Quotes about: Ambition

• Whether we fall by ambition, blood, or lust, like diamonds we are cut with our own dust.

  John Webster

  Fall, Ambition, Cutting

  John Webster, John Russell Brown (1997). “The Duchess of Malfi: John Webster”, p.185, Manchester University Press

• Vain the ambition of kings Who seek by trophies and dead things To leave a living name behind, And weave but nets to catch the wind.

  John Webster

  Life, Kings, Ambition

  'The Devil's Law-Case' (1623) act 5, sc. 4

• Ambition, madam, is a great man's madness.

  John Webster

  Ambition, Men, Madness

  1623 The Duchess of Malfi, act 1, sc.1.

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