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)