| Quote | Author | Source | Email Quote |
|---|
| Surprises, like misfortunes, seldom come alone. | Charles Dickens | Oliver Twist |  |
| He does love prophesying a misfortune, does the average British ghost. Send him out to prognosticate trouble to somebody, and he is happy. | Jerome K. Jerome | Told After Supper | |
| "We must meet reverses boldly, and not suffer them to frighten us, my dear. We must learn to act the play out. We must live misfortune down, Trot!" | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | |
| "I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world." | Charles Dickens | David Copperfield | |
| "Misfortunes one can endure--they come from outside, they are accidents. But to suffer for one's own faults--ah!--there is the sting of life." | Oscar Wilde | Lady Windermere's Fan | |
| "Oh, what a misfortune is mine," cried Bradley, breaking off to wipe the starting perspiration from his face as he shook from head to foot, "that I cannot so control myself as to appear a stronger creature than this, when a man who has not felt in all his life what I have felt in a day can so command himself!" He said it in a very agony, and even followed it with an errant motion of his hands as if he could have torn himself. | Charles Dickens | Our Mutual Friend | |
| . . . 'tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being. | William Makepeace Thackeray | The History of Henry Esmond | |
| Are you conscious of the restful influence which the stars exert? To me they are the most soothing things in Nature. I am proud to say that I don't know the name of one of them. The glamour and romance would pass away from them if they were all classified and ticketed in one's brain. But when a man is hot and flurried, and full of his own little ruffled dignities and infinitesimal misfortunes, then a star bath is the finest thing in the world. | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | The Stark Munro Letters | |
| "To lose one parent, Mr. Worthing, may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness." | Oscar Wilde | The Importance of Being Earnest | |
| "This is a miserable world," says the Sergeant. "Human life, Mr. Betteredge, is a sort of target—misfortune is always firing at it, and always hitting the mark." | Wilkie Collins | The Moonstone | |
