Famous Quotes a249-a252

a249: -ambition, idly vain;
Revenge and malice swell her train.
- Penrose.

a250: Vaulting ambition which o'erleaps itself.
- Shakespreare.

a251: What's all the gaudy glitter of a crown?
What but the glaring meteor of ambition,
That leads the wretch benighted in his errors,
Points to the gulf and shines upon destruction?
- Brooke.

a252: Who soars too near the sun, with golden wings,
Melts them; to ruin his own fortune brings.
- Shakespreare.