William Shakespeare Quotes About Destiny

• It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Happiness, Being Yourself

• Sweet are the uses of adversity

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Sports, Sweet

  'As You Like It' (1599) act 2, sc. 1, l. 12

• Our wills and fates do so contrary run, That our devices still are overthrown; Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Fate, Destiny

  1600-1 Player King. Hamlet, act 3, sc.2, l.202-3.

• But yet I'll make assurance double sure, and take a bond of fate: thou shalt not live.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Destiny, Assurance

  'Macbeth' (1606) act 4, sc. 1, l. 83

• Hanging and wiving goes by destiny.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Destiny, Merchant Of Venice

  1596-7 Nerissa.TheMerchant ofVenice, act 2, sc.9, l.81-2.

• Such as we are made of, such we be.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Love You, Destiny

  William Shakespeare, Alexander Dyce (1857). “The Works of William Shakespeare”, p.74

• O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Wine, Destiny, Names

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 2, sc. 3, l. [285]

• Are you up to your destiny?

  William Shakespeare

  Destiny, Your Destiny

• And by that destiny to perform an act Whereof what's past is prologue, what to come In yours and my discharge.

  William Shakespeare

  Destiny, Past, Tempest

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1773). “The Plays of William Shakespeare: Prefaces. Tempest. Two gentlemen of Verona. Merry wives of Windsor”, p.44

• Haply for I am black, And have not those soft parts of conversation That chamberers have; or for I am declined Into the vale of years—yet that’s not much— She’s gone. I am abused, and my relief Must be to loathe her. O curse of marriage, That we can call these delicate creatures ours And not their appetites! I had rather be a toad And live upon the vapor of a dungeon Than keep a corner in the thing I love For others’ uses. Yet ’tis the plague of great ones; Prerogatived are they less than the base. ’Tis destiny unshunnable, like death.

  William Shakespeare

  Destiny, Years, Black

  William Shakespeare (2000). “Othello”, p.140, Heinemann

• I have a bone to pick with Fate

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Destiny, Bones

• Fairies, black, grey, green, and white,
  You moonshine revellers, and shades of night,
  You orphan heirs of fixed destiny,
  Attend your office and your quality.

  William Shakespeare

  Night, Destiny, White

  William Shakespeare (1998). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.211, Oxford University Press, USA

• Who can control his fate?

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Destiny

  'Othello' (1602-4) act 5, sc. 2, l. 264

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