Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.

Quote by Thomas Otway

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Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that...

Shining through tears, like April suns in showers, that labour to overcome the cloud that...

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by...

Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by...

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Honest men are the soft easy cushions on which knaves repose and fatten.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never...

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never...

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

Justice is lame as well as blind, amongst us.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together.

No praying, it spoils business.

No praying, it spoils business.

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never...

Clocks will go as they are set, but man, irregular man, is never constant, never...

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night...

I once made love for an hour and fifteen minutes, but it was the night...

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...

Our brains are seventy-year clocks. The Angel of Life winds them up once for all,...

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

Making books is a skilled trade, like making clocks.

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is...

But what minutes! Count them by sensation, and not by calendars, and each moment is...

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock,...

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock,...

A watched clock never tells the time

A watched clock never tells the time

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second...

A recent conversation: Dubya: Look at the clock, time is racing! Cheney: That's the second...

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

Clock watchers never seem to be having a good time.

That awkward moment when you're making a wish on 11:11 and you get interrupted by...

That awkward moment when you're making a wish on 11:11 and you get interrupted by...

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my...

My evening visitors, if they cannot see the clock, should find the time in my...

Alarm clocks; because every morning should begin with a heart attack.

Alarm clocks; because every morning should begin with a heart attack.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.