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Fortune: Quotations from Shakespearian Quotations

I have upon a high and pleasant hill, Feign'd Fortune to be thron'd: The base the mount Is rank'd with all deserts, all kind of natures, That labour on the bosom of this sphere, To propagate their states: amongst them all, Whose eyes are on this sovereign lady fix'd, One do I personate of Timon's frame,

And what hath mass, or matter, by itself— T. C. i. 3.

Lies, rich in virtue, and unmingled. How some men creep in skittish Fortune's hall, While others play the idiots in her eyes! How one man eats into another's pride, While pride is fasting in his wantonness!— T.C. iii. 3.

Many dream not to find, neither deserve, And yet are steep'd in favours.— Cym. v. 4

A thousand moral paintings I can show, That shall demonstrate these quick blows of Fortune, More pregnantly than words. Yet you do well, To show lord Timon, that mean eyes have seen The foot above the head.— T. A. i. 1

I see men's judgments are A parcel of their fortunes; and things outward To draw the inward quality after them, To suffer all alike.— A.C. iii. 11.

When Fortune means to men most good, She looks upon them with a threatening eye.— K. J. iii. 4.

Be cheerful; wipe thine eyes: Some falls are means the happier to arise.— Cym. iv. 2.

A good man's fortune may grow out at heels. That strumpet, Fortune.— K. J. iii. 1.

Fortune brings in some boats that are not steer'd.— Cym. iv. 3.

Since you will buckle Fortune on my back, To bear her burden, whe'r I will or no, I must have patience to endure the load.— R. III. iii. 7.

Though Fortune's malice overthrow my state, My mind exceeds the compass of her wheel.— H. VI. PT. III. iv. 3.

Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us any thing.— J.C. iii. 2.

A man whom Fortune hath cruelly scratch'd.— A. W. v. 2

Fortune Telling

We do not know what is brought to pass under the pro— M. W. iv. 2.

fession of fortune-telling. FRACTURED LIMB, HEALED, STRONGER FOR THE ACCIDENT. And therefore be assur'd, my good lord marshal, If we do now make our atonement well, Our peace will, like a broken limb united, Grow stronger for the breaking— H. IV. PT. II. iv 1