“If you're the kind of man that can't support a woman's ambition, then I don't think there's any reason to continue this date.”

Molly Shannon - Tracy

“Women, they have minds, and they have souls, as well as just hearts. And they've got ambition, and they've got talent, as well as just beauty. I'm so sick of people saying that love is just all a woman is fit for.”
Saoirse Una Ronan - Jo March

- Colonel Race: What are you thinking?
- Hercule Poirot: I was thinking of Molière: "La grande ambition des femmes est d'inspirer l'amour".
- Colonel Race: I wish you'd speak some known language...
- Hercule Poirot: "The great ambition of women is to inspire love".
David Niven - Colonel Race
Peter Alexander Ustinov - Hercule Poirot

“I'm not a failure. I'm a success. You see, ambition is all right if it works.”

Harry Hayden - Mr. Waterbury

“If it wasn't for graft, you'd get a very low type of people in politics. Men without ambition.”

William Demarest - Skeeters - The Politician