William Shakespeare Quotes About Accidents

• It is great To do that thing that ends all other deeds, Which shackles accidents and bolts up change.

  William Shakespeare

  Suicide, Deeds, Ends

  'Antony and Cleopatra' (1606-7) act 5, sc. 2, l. 1

• But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies Of every wind that blows.

  William Shakespeare

  Blow, Wind, Chance

  The Complete Works of William Shakespeare The Winter's Tale Act IV, Scene 4, l. 548

• That we would do
  We should do when we would, for this 'would' changes,
  And hath abatements and delays as many
  As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,
  And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,
  That hurts by easing.

  William Shakespeare

  Change, Hurt, Hands

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, George Steevens, Isaac Reed, Samuel Johnson (1809). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: With the Corrections and Illustrations of Various Commentators”, p.235

• Time, whose millioned accidents creep in betwixt vows, and change decrees of kings, tan sacred beauty, blunt the sharpest intents, divert strong minds to the course of altering things.

  William Shakespeare

  Strong, Kings, Mind

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