William Shakespeare Quotes About Luck

• I will be treble-sinewed, hearted, breathed, And fight maliciously; for when mine hours Were nice and lucky, men did ransom lives Of me for jests; but now I'll set my teeth And send to darkness all that stop me.

  William Shakespeare

  Nice, Fighting, Men

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.2627, Oxford University Press

• If we shadows have offended, Think but this, and all is mended, That you have but slumbered here While these visions did appear. And this weak and idle theme, No more yielding but a dream, Gentles, do not reprehend: If you pardon, we will mend: And, as I am an honest Puck, If we have unearned luck Now to 'scape the serpent's tongue, We will make amends ere long; Else the Puck a liar call; So, good night unto you all. Give me your hands, if we be friends, And Robin shall restore amends.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Night, Dream, Liars

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 5, sc. 2, l. 54

• Fortune brings in some boats that are not steered.

  William Shakespeare

  Business, Good Luck, Best Of Luck

  William Shakespeare (2011). “Cymbeline”, p.107, Palgrave Macmillan

• As good luck would have it.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Luck, Luck

  William Shakespeare (1857). “The Complete Works of Shakspeare, Revised from the Best Authorities : with a Memoir, and Essay on His Genius”, p.102

• Farewell, good Salisbury, and good luck go with thee!

  William Shakespeare

  Farewell, Good Luck, Luck

  William Shakespeare, James Boswell, Alexander Pope, George Steevens, Richard Farmer (1821). “The Plays and Poems of William Shakspeare”, p.414

• This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd numbers, either in nativity, chance, or death.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Good Luck, Numbers

  1597-8 Falstaff.TheMerryWives ofWindsor, act 5, sc.1, l.3-4.

• As good luck would have it, comes in one Mistress Page, gives intelligence of Ford's approach, and in her invention, and Ford's wife's distraction, they conveyed me into a buck-basket.

  William Shakespeare

  Good Luck, Giving, Wife

  William Shakespeare (1826). “Plays of William Shakespeare”, p.56

• Oh, I am fortune's fool!

  William Shakespeare

  Good Luck, Fool, Classic

  William Shakespeare (1843). “Romeo et Juliette: tragédie”, p.54

• Not from the stars do I my judgement pluck, And yet methinks I have astronomy. But not to tell of good or evil luck, Of plagues, of dearths, or season's quality; Nor can I fortune to brief minutes tell ... Or say with princes if it shall go well.

  William Shakespeare

  Stars, Science, Evil

  William Shakespeare (2009). “Sonnets and Other Poems”, p.208, Palgrave Macmillan

• Good luck lies in odd numbers.

  William Shakespeare

  Lying, Good Luck, Numbers

  'The Merry Wives of Windsor' (1597) act 5, sc. 1, l. 2

• Against ill chances men are ever merry,
  But heaviness foreruns the good event.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Luck, Events

  'Henry IV, Part 2' (1597) act 4, sc. 2, l. 81

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