Dear Quote by Vincent Voiture Download Open image “Fortune is a great deceiver. She sells very dear the things she seems to give us.” — Vincent Voiture ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Dear Deceiver Deception Fortune Giving Wealth
Fortune's a right whore. If she give ought, she deals it in small parcels, that she may take away all at one swoop. — John Webster Copy Share Image
They say fortune is a woman and capricious. But sometimes she is a good woman, and gives to those who merit. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Let fortune do her worst, whatever she makes us lose, so long as she never makes us lose our honesty and our independence. — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
We read on the foreheads of those who are surrounded by a foolish luxury, that fortune sells what she is thought to give. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Fortune rules in all things, and advances and depresses things more out of her own will than right and justice. — Sallust Copy Share Image
Fortune never appears so blind as to those to whom she does no good. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“Fortune offers you opportunities to create; she does not hand you presents.” — Margaret George Copy Share Image
This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some… — Amelia Barr Copy Share Image
Fortune never seems so blind to any as to those on whom she bestows no favors. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Men are found to be vainer on account of those qualities which they fondly believe they have than of those which they really have. — Vincent Voiture Copy Share Image
I gave my archive to Emory University because there's a really dear friend who teaches there, Rudolph Byrd, and he's the editor. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
O lands! O all so dear to me - what you are, I become part of that, whatever it is. — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Dear God, I trust that no matter what happens in my life, it is for my highest good. And no matter what happens in… — Susan Jeffers Copy Share Image
Most beautiful is the sight of those near and dear to us when our original kinship makes us of one mind. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
Oh, dear Hazel.” Aphrodite folded her fan. “Such optimism, yet you have heartrending days ahead of you. Of course war is coming. Love and… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
You may be sure, dear Crito, that inaccurate language is not only in itself a mistake: it implants evil in men's souls. — Plato Copy Share Image
You're thinking about something, my dear, and that makes you forget to talk. I can't tell you just now what the moral of that… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
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It must be that I am dreaming, and that I shall awaken in a moment to see that awful knife descending toward my heart-… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Dear John, tell me everything. Write it all down, that way, we’ll be with each other all the time, even if we’re not with… — Nicholas Sparks Copy Share Image
'Madea' is a Southern term. It's short for 'mother dear.' So there are a lot of Madeas out there. — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image