William Shakespeare Quotes About Fate

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

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Happiness, Being Yourself

• Antonio: Will you stay no longer? nor will you not that I go with you? Sebastian: By your patience, no. My stars shine darkly over me; the malignancy of my fate might, perhaps, distemper yours; therefore I shall crave of you your leave that I may bear my evils alone. It were a bad recompense for your love to lay any of them on you.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Fate, Evil

  William Shakespeare (2005). “Twelfth Night; Or, What You Will”, p.26, 1st World Publishing

• He shall spurn fate, scorn death, and bear His hopes 'bove wisdom, grace and fear: And you all know, security Is mortals' chiefest enemy.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Grace, Enemy

  William Shakespeare (2008). “Macbeth”, p.202, Cambridge University Press

• Men at some time are masters of their fates.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Men, Cassius

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 134

• O heaven! that one might read the book of fate, and see the revolution of the times.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Future, Fate

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 45

• What fates impose, that men must needs abide; it boots not to resist both wind and tide.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Men, Wind

  1592 Edward. Henry VI PartThree, act 4, sc.4, l.31-2.

• In love the heavens themselves do guide the state;
  Money buys lands, and wives are sold by fate.

  William Shakespeare

  Marriage, Fate, Land

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Nicholas Rowe (1807). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare, with Explanatory Notes: To which is Added, a Copious Index to the Remarkable Passages and Words”, p.73

• 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.

• Oh God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level, and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea.

  William Shakespeare

  Book, Fate, Science

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 45

• Crowns have their compass-length of days their date-
  Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate-
  Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker,
  But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.

  William Shakespeare

  Kings, Knowledge, Fate

  William Shakespeare, John Payne Collier (1858). “Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, Tragedies, and Poems”, p.171

• 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

• Men at sometime are the masters of their fate.

  William Shakespeare

  Inspirational, Fate, Men

• Men at some time are masters of their fates. The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves, that we are underlings.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Stars, Fate

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 1, sc. 2, l. 134

• Death, a necessary end, will come when it will come

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Fate, Ides Of March

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 2, sc. 2, l. 30

• what cannot be saved when fate takes, patience her injury a mockery makes

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Injury, Mockery

• This day's black fate on more days doth depend; This but begins the woe, others must end.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Black, Woe

  William Shakespeare, Joseph Dennie, Samuel Johnson, George Steevens (1809). “The plays of William Shakespeare ...: With the corrections and illustrations of various commentators”, p.303

• Our wills and fates do so contrary run.

  William Shakespeare

  Running, Fate, Contrary

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

• I do I know not what, and fear to find Mine eye too great a flatterer for my mind. Fate, show thy force. Ourselves we do not owe. What is decreed must be; and be this so.

  William Shakespeare

  Eye, Fate, Mind

  William Shakespeare (1823). “The Dramatic Works of William Shakspeare: From the Text of Johnson, Stevens, and Reed; with Glossarial Notes, His Life, and a Critique on His Genius & Writings”, p.38

• Who can control his fate?

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Destiny

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

• I have a bone to pick with Fate

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Destiny, Bones

• O sir, you are old; nature in you stands on the very verge of her confine; you should be ruled and led by some discretion, that discerns your fate better than you yourself.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Age, Should

• He must needs go that the devil drives.

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Devil, Needs

  William Shakespeare (1998). “All's Well that Ends Well”, p.95, Oxford University Press, USA

• The happiest youth, viewing his progress through,
  What perils past, what crosses to ensue,
  Would shut the book, and sit him down and die.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Book, Fate

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 3, sc. 1, l. 54

• What can be avoided
  Whose end is purposed by the mighty gods?

  William Shakespeare

  Fate, Ends, Mighty God

  BookCaps, William Shakespeare (2011). “Julius Caesar In Plain and Simple English (A Modern Translation): BookCaps Study Guide”, p.427, BookCaps Study Guides

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