Walter Savage Landor Quotes About Ambition

Quotes about: Ambition

• Ambition does not see the earth she treads on: The rock and the herbage are of one substance to her.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Success, Ambition, Rocks

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “Imaginary Conversations of Greeks and Romans”, p.461

• Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked. God sometimes sends a famine, sometimes a pestilence, and sometimes a hero, for the chastisement of mankind; none of them surely for our admiration.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Hero, Ambition, Pestilence

  Walter Savage Landor (2016). “Delphi Collected Poetical Works of Walter Savage Landor (Illustrated)”, Delphi Classics

• We must distinguish between felicity and prosperity; for prosperity leads often to ambition, and ambition to disappointment; the course is then over, the wheel turns round but once, while the reaction of goodness and happiness is perpetual.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Disappointment, Ambition, Wheels

  Walter Savage Landor (1876). “The Works and Life of Walter Savage Landor: Imaginary conversations. Third series : Conversations of literary men (First series)”

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