Shakespeare Quotes About Ambition

    16 quotes across 6 plays.

    Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

    York·Henry VI, Part 2·Act 3, Scene 1

    Thus sometimes hath the brightest day a cloud; And after summer evermore succeeds Barren winter

    Gloucester·Henry VI, Part 2·Act 2, Scene 4

    Small things make base men proud.

    Captain·Henry VI, Part 2·Act 4, Scene 1

    I, that have neither pity, love, nor fear.

    Richard (Gloucester)·Henry VI, Part 3·Act 5, Scene 6

    What scene of death hath Roscius now to act?

    Richard (Gloucester)·Henry VI, Part 3·Act 5, Scene 6

    Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

    Richard (Gloucester)·Henry VI, Part 3·Act 5, Scene 6

    The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, / But in ourselves, that we are underlings.

    Cassius·Julius Caesar·Act 1, Scene 2

    Et tu, Brute! Then fall, Caesar.

    Julius Caesar·Julius Caesar·Act 3, Scene 1

    Yet Brutus says he was ambitious, / And Brutus is an honourable man.

    Mark Antony·Julius Caesar·Act 3, Scene 2

    Stars, hide your fires; / Let not light see my black and deep desires.

    Macbeth·Macbeth·Act 1, Scene 4

    I have no spur / To prick the sides of my intent, but only / Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself / And falls on the other.

    Macbeth·Macbeth·Act 1, Scene 7

    Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here.

    Lady Macbeth·Macbeth·Act 1, Scene 5

    Now is the winter of our discontent

    Richard III·Richard III·Act 1, Scene 1

    I am determined to prove a villain

    Richard III·Richard III·Act 1, Scene 1

    Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon 'em.

    Malvolio·Twelfth Night·Act 2, Scene 5

    I'll be revenged on the whole pack of you.

    Malvolio·Twelfth Night·Act 5, Scene 1
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