Fate Quotes by John Dryden

Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace.

— John Dryden

The perverseness of my fate is such that he's not mine because he's mine too much.

— John Dryden

All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

— John Dryden

The Fates but only spin the coarser clue; The finest of the wool is left for you.

— John Dryden

An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.

— John Dryden

Love is not in our choice but in our fate.

— John Dryden

For those whom God to ruin has design'd, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

— John Dryden

What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me…

— John Dryden

Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings.

— John Dryden

“Whatever is, is in its causes just; But purblind man Sees but a part o' th' chain; the nearest link; His eyes…

— John Dryden

“Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long — Even wondered at, because he…

— John Dryden

Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today: Be fair or foul or rain or shine, The joys I have possessed…

— John Dryden

Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long,- Even wonder'd at, because he dropp'd…

— John Dryden

Seek not to know what must not be reveal, for joy only flows where fate is most concealed. A busy person would…

— John Dryden

Be fair, or foul, or rain, or shine, The joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine. Not heaven itself…

— John Dryden

When the Sun sets, shadows, that shew'd at Noon But small, appear most long and terrible; So, when we think Fate hovers…

— John Dryden