Euripides Quotes About Luck

Quotes about: Luck

• The man who glories in his luck may be overthrown by destiny.

  Euripides

  Destiny, Men, Luck

  Euripides (1959). “Euripides: Ion. Rhesus. The Suppliant women. Orestes. Iphigenia in Aulis. Electra. The Phoenician women. The Bacchae”

• Doth some one say that there be gods above? There are not; no, there are not. Let no fool, Led by the old false fable, thus deceive you. Look at the facts themselves, yielding my words, No undue credence: for I say that kings kill, rob, break oaths, lay cities waste by fraud, And doing thus are happier than those, Who live calm pious lives day after day. All divinity is built-up from our good and evil luck.

  Euripides

  Kings, Cities, Evil

  "Bellerophon". Play by Euripides, estimated between 455 and 425 BCE.

• Since luck's a nine days' wonder, wait their end.

  Euripides

  Waiting, Luck, Nine

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

• Fortune always will confer an aura of worth, unworthily; and in this world The lucky person passes for a genius.

  Euripides

  Gambling, Luck, Genius

  Aeschylus, Euripides, Sophocles (1960). “The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides”

• All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!

  Euripides

  Children, Mean, Men

  Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides (1959). “Euripides”

• There is nothing like the sight of an old enemy down on his luck.

  Euripides

  Sight, Luck, Enemy

  Euripides (1942). “Euripides”

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