Quotes About Ambition

And let those that play your clowns speak no more than is set down for them: for there be of them that will themselves laugh, to set on some quantity of barren spectators to laugh too, though in the meantime some necessary question of the play be then to be considered: that's villanous and shows a most pitiful ambition in the fool that uses it.

I am determinèd to prove a villain

Sawcy, and ouer-bold, how did you dare To Trade, and Trafficke with Macbeth, In Riddles, and Affaires of death; And I the Mistris of your Charmes, The close contriuer of all harmes, Was neuer call'd to beare my part, Or shew the glory of our Art?

Our son shall win. QUEEN-He is fat and scant of breath. Here Hamlet, Wipe thy brow.

Let not light see my black and deep desires. They eye wink at the hand, yet let that be which the eye fears, when it is done, to see.

And as he plucked his cursed steel away, Mark how the blood of Caesar followed it, As rushing out of doors, to be resolved If Brutus unkindly knocked or no.

Thoughts are but dreams till their effects be tried.

That tears shall drown the wind. I have no spur To prick the sides of my intent, but only Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself And falls on th' other.

We'll surely go to hell for this. Lady Macbeth: And when we do, we'll rule that too.

They that stand high have many blasts to shake 275 them, 276 And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.

To cut the head off and then hack the limbs, Like wrath in death and envy afterwards. For Antony is but a limb of Caesar. 165    Let us be sacrificers, but not butchers, Caius.

The thing that is so singular and stunning about Macbeth— indeed, it strikes one straightaway—is that all the magic Shakespeare put into writing it manages so entirely to harrow and astonish the soul.

Soy muy soberbio, ambicioso, vengativo, con más pecados sobre mi cabeza que pensamientos para concebirlos, fantasía para darles forma o tiempo para llevarlos a ejecución.

The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for the end it works to.

My determinate voyage is mere extravagancy

All that impedes thee from the golden round, Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem (25) To have thee crowned withal.

Why, 'Some are born great, some achieve great-   ness, and some have greatness thrown upon them.

That, when they shall be opened, black Macbeth Will seem as pure as snow, and the poor state (55) Esteem him as a lamb, being compared With my confineless harms.

That vulture in you to devour so many As will to greatness dedicate themselves, Finding it so inclined.

Borne by the trustless wings of false desire.

Quieres lograr lo que estimas ornamento de la vida y en tu propia estimación vivir como un cobarde, poniendo el no me atrevo al servicio del quiero como el gato del refrán? MACBETH: ¡Ya basta! Me atrevo a todo lo que sea digno de un hombre, quien se atreva a más, no lo es.

If then that friend demand why Brutus rose against Caesar, this is my answer: not that I loved Caesar less, but that I loved Rome more.

But Brutus says he was ambitious; And Brutus is an honourable man….

Bist du zu feige, / Derselbe Mann zu sein in Tat und Mut, / Der du in Wünschen bist?