Chance Quotes by William Shakespeare

“You must take your chance.”

— William Shakespeare

If chance will have me king, why, chance may crown me.

— William Shakespeare

Though I am not naturally honest, I am sometimes so by chance.

— William Shakespeare

This feather stirs; she lives! if it be so, it is a chance which does redeem all sorrows that ever I have…

— William Shakespeare

So weary with disasters, tugg'd with fortune, That I would set my life on any chance, To mend, or be rid on't.

— William Shakespeare

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it.

— William Shakespeare

Determine on some course more than a wild exposure to each chance.

— William Shakespeare

I shall show the cinders of my spirits Through the ashes of my chance.

— William Shakespeare

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

— William Shakespeare

If by chance I talk a little wild, forgive me; I had it from my father.

— William Shakespeare

For there was never yet philosoper That could endure the toothache patiently, However they have writ the style of gods, And made…

— William Shakespeare

Tis a blushing shame-faced spirit that mutinies in a man's bosom. It fills a man full of obstacles. It made me once…

— William Shakespeare

But as the unthought-on accident is guilty To what we wildly do, so we profess Ourselves to be the slaves of chance,…

— William Shakespeare

This is the third time; I hope good luck lies in odd numbers. Away; go. They say there is divinity in odd…

— William Shakespeare

He that will have a cake out of the wheat must tarry the grinding. Have I not tarried? Ay, the grinding; but…

— William Shakespeare

There is a history in all men's lives, Figuring the nature of the times deceased, The which observed, a man may prophesy,…

— William Shakespeare

I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have railed so long against marriage:…

— William Shakespeare

Had I but died an hour before this chance, I had liv'd a blessed time; for, from this instant, There's nothing serious…

— William Shakespeare

I'll not meddle with it; it is a dangerous thing; it makes a man a coward; a man cannot steal, but it…

— William Shakespeare

Fairest Cordelia, that art most rich, being poor; Most choice, forsaken; and most loved, despised! Thee and thy virtues here I seize…

— William Shakespeare

Friends now fast sworn, Whose double bosoms seems to wear one heart, Whose hours, whose bed, whose meal and exercise Are still…

— William Shakespeare

I'll not meddle with it. It makes a man a coward: a man cannot steal but it accuseth him; a man cannot…

— William Shakespeare