John Webster Quotes about Ambition

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

Fall, Ambition, Cutting

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

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

Ambition, Men, Madness

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

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.

Life, Kings, Ambition

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