destiny Quotes

The cause is hidden; the effect is visible to all.

The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven; the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.

Call it Nature, Fate, Fortune; all these are names of the one and selfsame God.

If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.

Just as I shall select my ship when I am about to go on a voyage, or my house when I propose to take a residence, so I shall choose my death when I am about to depart from life.

I get the impression sometimes that a play arrives in a sequence of events that I have no control over.

The bad end unhappily, the good unluckily. That is what tragedy means.

Chance, my dear, is the sovereign deity in child-bearing.

Anatomy is destiny.

Our lives are not what we deserve; they are, let us agree, in many ways deficient.