Ill Fortune Quotes

12 quotes by 11 authors

To mourn and bewail your ill-fortune, when you will gain a tear from those who listen, this is worth the trouble. — Aeschylus
If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read? So that… — Franz Kafka
Haiti is 10.4-million people, of whom 35 per cent are children under 15. The country has always had great potential - and this is still… — Laurent Lamothe
To make wail and lament for one's ill fortune, when one will win a tear from the audience, is well worthwhile. — Aeschylus
The world is apt to judge of everything by the success; and whoever has ill fortune will hardly be allowed a good name. — William Dampier
Love longs to be free, a stranger to every worldly desire, lest its inner vision become dimmed, and lest worldly self-interest hinder it or ill-fortune… — Thomas a Kempis
Ill fortune seldom comes alone. — John Dryden
I have been asked whether it is strange when a big story and big business for you is tragedy or ill fortune for someone else;… — Mary Hart
the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth… — Jane Austen
I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory. — Michel de Montaigne
Ill fortune never crushed that man whom good fortune deceived not. — Ben Jonson
Who hath not known ill fortune, never knew himself, or his own virtue. — David Mallet

Who Wrote These Ill Fortune Quotes

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