Quotes about Fatality

The things one feels absolutely certain about are never true. That is the fatality of faith, and the lesson of romance.

I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions—that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.

There howl your pagans; where you ever find them, next door to you; under the long-flung shadow, and the snug patronizing lee of churches. For by some curious fatality, as it is often noted of your metropolitan freebooters that they ever encamp around the halls of justice, so sinners, gentlemen, most abound in holiest vicinities.