Top 52 Shakespeare Fortune Quotes
#1. The fortune of us that are the moon's men doth ebb and flow like the sea, being governed, as the sea is, by the moon.
William Shakespeare
#2. Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler afore her eyes, to signify to you that Fortune is blind.
William Shakespeare
#3. But thou art fair, and at thy birth, dear boy,
Nature and Fortune join'd to make thee great:
Of Nature's gifts thou mayst with lilies boast,
And with the half-blown rose; but Fortune, O!
William Shakespeare
#4. So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune,
That I would set my life on any chance,
To mend, or be rid on't.
William Shakespeare
#6. Women are not In their best fortunes strong, but want will perjure the ne'er-touched vestal.
William Shakespeare
#7. Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck,
And yet methinks I have astronomy.
But not to tell of good or evil luck,
Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality;
Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well ...
William Shakespeare
#8. GLOUCESTER
Now, good sir, what are you?
EDGAR
A most poor man made tame to fortune's blows,
Who by the art of known and feeling sorrows
Am pregnant to good pity.
William Shakespeare
#9. Thou art a slave, whom fortune's tender arm
With favour never clasp'd; but bred a dog.
William Shakespeare
#13. This world is not for aye, nor 'tis not strange
That even our loves should with our fortunes change,
For 'tis a question left us yet to prove,
Whether love lead fortune, or else fortune love.
William Shakespeare
#16. There is a tide in the affairs of men
Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;
Omitted, all the voyage of their life
Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
On such a full sea are we now afloat;
And we must take the current when it serves,
Or lose our ventures.
William Shakespeare
#17. And To be or not to be, that is the question;
Whether 't is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or, by opposing, end them.
William Shakespeare
#18. Now the fair goddess, Fortune,
Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms
Misguide thy opposers' swords!
William Shakespeare
#22. When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.
William Shakespeare
#23. There's a tide in the affairs of men, which taken at the flood, leads onto fortune, omitted, all their voyages end in shallows and miseries. Upon such tide are we now ...
William Shakespeare
#24. There is a time in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune.
William Shakespeare
#25. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
William Shakespeare
#26. In Antiochus and his daughter you have heard of monstrous lust the due and just reward; In Pericles, his queen, and daughter, seen, Although assailed with fortune fierce and keen, Virtue preserved from fell destruction's blast, Led on by heaven, and crowned with joy at last.
William Shakespeare
#27. Yet, fortune cannot recompense me better
Than to die well, and not my master's debtor.
William Shakespeare
#28. So may I, blind fortune leading me,
Miss that which one unworthier may attain,
And die with grieving.
William Shakespeare
#29. An admirable evasion of whoremaster man, to lay his goatish disposition on the charge of a star!
William Shakespeare
#32. A fool, a fool! I met a fool i' th' forest,
A motley fool! a miserable world!
As I do live by food, I met a fool
Who laid him down and basked him in the sun
And railed on Lady Fortune in good terms,
In good set terms, and yet a motley fool.
William Shakespeare
#33. As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by fortune's dearest spite, Take all my comfort of thy worth and truth.
William Shakespeare
#34. Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state,
My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.
William Shakespeare
#35. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward!
Thou little valiant, great in villainy!
Thou ever strong upon the stronger side!
Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight
But where her humorous ladyship is by
To teach thee safety.
William Shakespeare
#36. Many dream not to find, neither deserve, and yet are steeped in favors.
William Shakespeare
#37. Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.
William Shakespeare
#38. Will Fortune never come with both hands full,
But write her fair words still in foulest terms?
William Shakespeare
#41. The thing of courage
As rous'd with rage doth sympathise,
And, with an accent tun'd in self-same key,
Retorts to chiding fortune.
William Shakespeare
#42. Blest are those
Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled,
That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger
To sound what stop she please.
William Shakespeare
#43. It is thyself, mine own self's better part; Mine eye's clear eye, my dear heart's dearer heart; My food, my fortune, and my sweet hope's aim, My sole earth's heaven, and my heaven's claim.
William Shakespeare
#44. Live loath'd and long,
Most smiling, smooth, detested parasites,
Courteous destroyers, affable wolves, meek bears,
You fools of fortune, trencher friends, time flies
Cap and knee slaves, vapors, and minute jacks.
William Shakespeare
#45. A thousand moral paintings I can show
That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune's
More pregnantly than words.
William Shakespeare
#46. Wisdom and fortune combating together,
If that the former dare but what it can,
No chance may shake it.
William Shakespeare
#47. Happy is your grace,
That can translate the stubbornness of fortune
Into so quiet and so sweet a style
William Shakespeare
#48. RODERIGO What a full fortune does the thick lips owe, If he can carry't thus!
William Shakespeare
#49. If thou wilt leave me, do not leave me last,
When other petty griefs have done their spite,
But in the onset come: so shall I taste
At first the very worst of fortune's might;
And other strains of woe, which now seem woe,
Compar'd with loss of thee will not seem so.
William Shakespeare
#50. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes
A pair of star-crossed lovers take their life,
Whose misadventured piteous overthrows
Doth with their death bury their parents' strife ...
O, I am fortune's fool! ...
Then I defy you, stars.
William Shakespeare
#51. To be a well-favoured man is the gift of fortune; but to write and read comes by nature.
William Shakespeare
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