“You know, more often than not, a so-called ambitious fellow is simply showing off for someone he loved a darn sight more than the job he’s doing. A woman, usually. A woman who thinks he’s a great man. Erase that incentive and the show-off becomes what he really is—a meringue pie that goes to pieces with one good squash.”
John Twist, screenplay for The Great Man Votes (spoken in the film by John Barrymore)