"Ambition has one heel nailed in well, though she stretch her fingers to touch the heavens"

"Ambition is but avarice on stilts, and masked"

"It is well known that Beauty does not look with a good grace on the timid advances of Humour"

"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend"

"Not houses finely roofed or the stones of walls well builded, nay nor canals and dockyards make the city, but men able to use their opportunity"

"I started my own little carpet and upholstery cleaning business. I've done it for 20 years. I live well"

"I should have been smart enough to stay happy. But my ambition ruled my life"

"That which is given with pride and ostentation is rather an ambition than a bounty"

"I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes"

"The desire to annoy no one, to harm no one, can equally well be the sign of a just as of an anxious disposition"

"When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory"