'Tis a common proof, that lowliness is Edward Young ambition's ladder, where to the climber upwards turns his face; but when he once attains the utmost round, he then unto the ladder turns his back, looks into the clouds scorning the base degrees by which he did ascend. William Shakespeare on ambition
Ambition's like a circle on the water, which never ceases to enlarge itself, 'till by broad spreading it disperse to nought. William Shakespeare on ambition
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 shad William Shakespeare on ambition
What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason; how infinite in faculties; in form and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel; in apprenhension, how like a god; the beauty of the world the paragon of animals! And yet to me what is this quintessence of dust? William Shakespeare on beauty
Honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar. William Shakespeare on beauty
My business was great, and in such a case as mine a man may strain courtesy. William Shakespeare on business
O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchemy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness. William Shakespeare on character