Ambition

• “There the grown serpent lies. The worm that’s fled… in time will venom breed / no teeth for th’present” -Act 3, Scene 4, Macbeth
• “disdaining fortune, with his brandished steel, which smok’d with bloody execution” -Act 1, Scene 2, The Captain
• “I have no spur… vaulting ambition which o’erleaps itself and falls on th’other” -Act 1, Scene 7, Macbeth
• “like valour’s minions carved out his passages” -Act 1, Scene 2, The Captain