Fortune

Famous quotes containing the word fortune:

    Honesty, by evil fortune tried,
    Finds in adversity the seed of praise.
    Ovid (Publius Ovidius Naso)

    A good man’s fortune may grow out at heels.
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

    Errors look so very ugly in persons of small means—one feels they are taking quite a liberty in going astray; whereas people of fortune may naturally indulge in a few delinquencies.
    George Eliot [Mary Ann (or Marian)