Henry Clay Quotes

Bobby Roode is the kind of guy who will stab anyone in the back to get what he wants.

Theodore betrays his friends for his own ambition.

There is no act of treachery or meanness of which a political party is not capable; for in politics there is no honour.

We now have contestants who will not let anything get in their way of victory. Some contestants have thrown each other under the bus this season.

In the interval between the defeat of the patriot cause and the last revolution, he resided in the capital, and in a society not remarkable for strict morals, he was distinguished for his immorality... To judge him from his public papers, I do not think him a man of talents. He is prompt, bold and decisive, and not scrupulous about the means he employs to obtain his ends.

Such is human nature, in the gigantic intellect, the envious temper, the ravenous ambition, and the rotten heart of Daniel Webster.

To plunder, to lie, to show your ass, are the three essentials for climbing high.

Thou [Sir Walter Raleigh] art a monster; thou hast an English face but a Spanish heart.... Thou art the most vile and execrable traitor that ever lived.... There never lived a viler viper upon the face of the earth than thou.

He is only a filthy-brained child, conceived in ruthlessness and dedicated to the proposition that Judas Iscariot was a piker.

… a man steeped in falsehood … who had recourse to the lie whenever it suits his convenience …. He would sell his grandmother for any advantage.

A somewhat greasy bald-headed man with his mouth open.... What animated him from end to end of his grotesque career was simply ambition—the ambition of a common man to get his hand upon the collar of his superiors, or, failing that, to get his thumb into their eyes.

But what will not ambition and revenge descend to?

He would double-cross and destroy the reputation of anybody.

This man [Aaron Burr] has no principles, public or private. As a politician, his sole spring of action is an inordinate ambition.

America is a lunatic asylum.

That Martí is a madman — but a dangerous madman.

He’s a turncoat if there ever was one.

I want to be evil! I did play Lady Macbeth on stage to Alec Baldwin's Macbeth back in New York in 1998. But I've played a lot of characters who are so righteous and understanding. I don't want to be a goody-goody two-shoes all the time.

Traitors are hated even by those whom they prefer.

The fellow is either a madman or a poet.

Men have called me mad; but the question is not yet settled, whether madness is or is not the loftiest intelligence.

There is a fine line between insanity and genius.

I am very proud, revengeful, ambitious, with more offences at my beck than I have thoughts to put them in, imagination to give them shape, or time to act them in.

I have nothing but contempt and anger for those who betray the trust by exposing the name of [CIA] sources. They are, in my view, the most insidious, of traitors.

Hit that back-stabber where it hurts, right in the ambition.