Ambition Quote by Allen Drury

“His habit of reading isolated him: it became such a need that after being in company for some time he grew tired and restless;…

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Proust, who did not greatly admire Flaubert, except perhaps in his narrow sense as a stylist - or perhaps only did not care very…

— Enid Starkie

He is many things - dangerous and devious, cunning and deadly, a good friend and an implacable enemy - but he comes from an…

— Michael Scott

“He was a big, rather clumsy man, with a substantial bay window that started in the middle of the chest. I should guess that…

— C.P. Snow

“Fleury had succeeded (but only with difficulty) in overcoming certain qualms as to whether selling one’s life as dearly as possible, or even putting…

— J G Farrell

“Anyway, my point is that guys like Flec have a weakness, almost a kind of addiction, for the mystical, as opposed to poetic, way…

— Neal Stephenson

“Edward Ferrars was not recommended to their good opinion by any peculiar graces of person or address. He was not handsome, and his manners…

— Jane Austen

As minister of finance, Mr. Flaherty served his country with dedication and conviction, even as he faced mounting health challenges. As both a man…

— Thomas Mulcair

He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is possessed by…

— Warren Winiarski

“He called him (it was always a man) a flâneur. “The crowd is his habitat, as air is for the bird or water for…

— Elaine Sciolino

James Brown is the perfect example of flashy but classy. Classy doesn't have to mean boring. His gear was flamboyant but without being so…

— Mayer Hawthorne

“It amused him sometimes to consider that his friends, because he had a face which did not express his feelings very vividly and a…

— W. Somerset Maugham