Arthur C. Danto Quotes

While trying to protect the republic, the conspirators in Julius Caesar enable Mark Antony to triumph. In Rose Rage, the more Henry VI tries to fix things, the more they go wrong.

The worse I do the more popular I get.

The ambition and focus that propel you to success can also be your downfall.

The higher I get the lower I sink.

I wish you well and I hope it will be a huge hit, because that would be very good for me. And if, God forbid, it's a terrible flop, well that would be very good for me.

Ambition aspires to descend.

Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy.

I aimed at the public's heart, and by accident I hit it in the stomach.

's one of the perversities of the age: I'm embarrassed by its success, but I'm happy it's selling.

I always had a trunk full of good reviews. I'd get magnificent reviews, and I'd be standing out on the unemployment line!

What enables us to achieve our greatness contains the seeds of our destruction.

My Chinese name is Man Shing which means 'ten thousand success.' It's a name that's sure to set me up for failure.

Curious how often you Humans manage to obtain that which you do not want.

Success has ruined many a man.

You'll find out when you reach the top, you're on the bottom.

Everybody loves a winner, but nobody loves a winner.

She knows there's no success like failure, and that failure's no success at all.

The top line is that hubris is a disease that comes from success.

I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

The insolence of base minds in success is boundless; and would scarce admit of a comparison, did not they themselves furnish us with one in the degrees of their abjection when evil returns upon them.

in the very long run any success devours - and perhaps also corrupts.

There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.

If you're at the top, then brace for the fall.

More people are ruined by victory, I imagine, than be defeat.

Nothing fails like success—because the self-imposed task of our society and all its members is a contradiction: to force things to happen which are acceptable only when they happen without force.