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Fate: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

O heavens! that one might read the book of fate; And see the revolutions of the times Make mountains level, and the continent (Weary of solid firmness) melt itself Into the sea! and, other times, to see The beachy girdle of the ocean Too wide for Neptune's hips: how chances mock, And changes fill, the cup of alteration, With divers liquors!— H. IV. PT. II. iii. 1.

What fates impose, that men must needs abide, It boots not to resist both wind and tide.— H. IV. PT. III. iv. 3.

We defy augury; there is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. If it be now, 'tis not to come; if it be not to come, it will be now; if it be not now, yet it will come: the the readiness is all. H.v.2. But, O vain boast! Who can controul his fate?— O. v. 2.

Well, heaven forgive him, and forgive us all! Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall: Some run from brakes of vice and answer none; And some condemned for one fault alone.— M. M. ii. 1

If thou read this, O Cæsar, thou may'st live; If not, the fates with traitors do contrive.— J. C. ii. 3.

Men, at some times, are masters of their fates.— J. C. i. 2.

But, orderly to end where I begun, Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.— H. iii. 2