Fate Quotes

There's a divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough-hew them how we will. ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare The time is out of joint:—O cursed spite,
That ever I was born to set it right! ~ Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare We are merely the stars' tennis-balls, struck and banded Which way please them. ~ The Duchess of Malfi by John Webster Fortune's a right whore: If she give aught, she deals it in small parcels, That she may take away all at one swoop. ~ The White Devil by John Webster Destiny has a constant passion for the incongruous. ~ The Magnificent Ambersons by Booth Tarkington He thanked me, observing that there were days when you lay on your back and the sky rained apples; while there were other days when you wore your fingers down to the first joint to catch a flea. Such was Fortune! ~ The Adventures of Harry Richmond by George Meredith It was a still afternoon--the golden light was lingering languidly among the upper boughs, only glancing down here and there on the purple pathway and its edge of faintly sprinkled moss: an afternoon in which destiny disguises her cold awful face behind a hazy radiant veil, encloses us in warm downy wings, and poisons us with violet-scented breath. ~ Adam Bede by George Eliot But often the great cat Fate lets us go only to clutch us again in a fiercer grip. ~ The Curse of Eve by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "What must be shall be." ~ Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare "She's as obstinate as fate." ~ The Forsyte Saga by John Galsworthy