Ambition Quote by William Shakespeare

“Perhaps he did not think himself worthy of the King’s Tower, or perhaps he did not care. That was his mistake, the false humility…

— George R.R. Martin

“He might have had as much right to be there as a maharajah’s bastard had to claim a throne, but he was determined to…

— Paul Fraser Collard

“As a king can wear a crown, a crown can also weary a king.”

— Anthony Liccione

“Speaking of the king to the queen--He didn't marry you to become king. He became king because he wanted to marry you.”

— Megan Whalen Turner

“If a king should fall under such contempt or envy that he could not keep his subjects in their duty but by oppression and…

— Thomas More

“It seemed a very great folly to attempt to force a declaration from him, but it seemed a greater folly to let him go.…

— Deanna Raybourn

“I don’t want to be a queen without a king.” Unyielding, he said, “You will do what you must. With or without me.” And…

— Andrea Jones

“Sometimes he was contemptibly childish. He desired to have kings meet him at railway-stations on his return from some ghastly Nowhere, where he intended…

— Joseph Conrad

“Do not wait for a coronation; the greatest emperors crown themselves.”

— Robert Greene

“is a very kingly, honourable, and frequent practice, when one prince desires the assistance of another, to secure him against an invasion, that the…

— Jonathan Swift

“Pleasing one king is difficult enough. Pleasing two is hardly possible.”

— George R.R. Martin

“That's for you to decide, Yor Majesty. You have the third greatest power in the land—God, the king, then you. And God rarely bothers.”

— Laura L. Sullivan