Best Mischance Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“By some curious mischance, a couple of my plays managed to hit an area where commercial success was feasible. But it's wrong to think I'm a commercial playwright who has somehow ceased his proper function. I have always been the same thing - which is not a commercial playwright. I'm not after the brass ring.”

Thinking Play Couple Areas Function Rings Curious Playwright Brass Mischance

Author:Edward Albee

“Although the season is joyful everywhere, / And mountain and valley are all verdant, / That would seem a truly small matter to him / Who has met mischance in love.”

Matter Seems Mets Mountain Seasons Valleys Joyful Mountains And Valleys Mischance

Book:Hadewijch (CWS)

Source: Hadewijch (CWS)

“We call comeliness a mischance in the first respect, which belongs principally to the face.”

Firsts Faces Beauty Mischance

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“Who doubting tyranny, and fainting under Fortune's false lottery, desperately run To death, for dread of death; that soul's most stout, That, bearing all mischance, dares last it out.”

Soul Running Lasts Doubt Fortune Dare Tyranny Dread Lottery Stout Fainting Mischance

Book:The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one

Source: The Works of Francis Beaumont, and Mr. John Fletcher: The two noble kinsmen; Thierry and Theodoret; The woman-hater; The nice valour; The honest man's fortune; A masque; Four plays or moral representations in one

“Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.”

Beautiful Belief Attitude Beauty Optimism Including Ugly Doctrine Optimistic Hereditary Optimism And Pessimism Optimists And Pessimists Mischance

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“The world is full enough of hurts and mischances without wars to multiply them.”

World War Enough Peace Hurt Mischance

Book:The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

Source: The Return of the King: Being the Third Part of the Lord of the Rings

“optimism, n. The doctrine, or belief, that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those most accustomed to the mischance of falling into adversity, and is most acceptably expounded with disproof - an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.”

Beautiful Fall Belief Intellectual Optimism Adversity Including Ugly Doctrine Treatment Disorder Accustomed Tenacity Contagious Hereditary Mischance

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“The beauty of the soul shines out when a man bears with composure one heavy mischance after another, not because he does not feel them, but because he is a man of high and heroic temper.”

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.”

Life Problem Hands Force Difficult Adversity Friendly Dauntless Good Courage Mischance

Book:Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910

Source: Letters of Rainer Maria Rilke, 1892-1910

“I think that to have known one good, old man-one man, who, through the chances and mischances of a long life, has carried his heart in his hand, like a palm-branch, waving all discords into peace-helps our faith in God, in ourselves, and in each other more than many sermons”

Thinking Men Heart Long Helping Hands Faith Peace Chance Known Branches One Man Old Man Faith In God Palms Sermons Long Life Discord Mischance

Author:George William Curtis

“Intemperance is naturally punished with diseases; rashness, with mischance; injustice; with violence of enemies; pride, with ruin; cowardice, with oppression; and rebellion, with slaughter.”

Political Enemy Violence Pride Disease Injustice Oppression Ruins Rebellion Cowardice Slaughter Intemperance Leviathan Rashness Mischance

Book:Leviathan - Revised Edition

Source: Leviathan - Revised Edition

“You will reply that reality hasn't the slightest need to be of interest. And I'll answer you that reality may avoid the obligation to be interesting, but that hypotheses may not. In the hypothesis you have postulated, chance intervenes largely. Here lies a dead rabbi; I should prefer a purely rabbinical explanation; not the imaginary mischances of an imaginary robber.”

Needs Should May Reality Lying Interest Chance Answers Interesting Obligation Explanation Imaginary Hypothesis Robbers Rabbi Mischance

Book:A Personal Anthology

Source: A Personal Anthology

“At a period when Literature was wont to attribute the grief of living exclusively to the mischances of disappointed love or the jealousy of adulterous deceptions, he had said not a word of these childish maladies, but had sounded those more incurable, more poignant and more profound: wounds that are inflicted by satiety, disillusion and contempt in ruined souls tortured by the present, disgusted with the past, terrified and desperate of the future.”

Source: Against the Grain: (À rebours)

“I shall always be consistent and never change my ways so long as I am in my senses; but for the sake of precedent the Senate should beware of binding itself to support the acts of any man, since he might through some mischance suffer a change.”

Men Way Should Long Might Suffering Change Support Sake Senses My Way Consistent Senate Never Change Binding Precedent Mischance

Author:Tiberius

“Yield not thy neck To fortune's yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance. In the difficult are the friendly forces, the hands that work on us.”

Mind Stills Hands Force Difficult Healing Fortune Triumph Necks Friendly Yield Teens Yoke Dauntless Mischance

Author:Rainer Maria Rilke

“Yield not thy neck To fortunes yoke, but let thy dauntless mind Still ride in triumph over all mischance.”

Mind Stills Fortune Triumph Necks Yield Boldness Yoke Dauntless Mischance

Book:The plays and poems of William Shakspeare

Source: The plays and poems of William Shakspeare