John Dryden Quotes

I'm a guy who's had great good fortune in his life. And everything has kind of gone in my direction.

Well, if Fortune be a woman, she's a good wench for this gear.

An unlucky rich man is more capable of satisfying his desires and of riding out disaster when it strikes, but a lucky man is better off than him...He is the one who deserves to be described as happy. But until he is dead, you had better refrain from calling him happy, and just call him fortunate.

One's ships come in over a calm sea.

Fate has blessed me.

I've just been very, very lucky with the film having been introduced in the right way.

Let no man be called happy before his death. Till then, he is not happy, only lucky.

Some folk want their luck buttered.

It wasn't like I felt I was on a wave. It was just so easy. It is only afterwards that I thought I really had a bit of good luck going on there with Yazoo.

Los Angeles has been good to me.

Fortune has rarely condescended to be the companion of genius.

I simply have a marvellous life, a very lucky life.

I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.

'Tis better to be fortunate than wise.

My friends all tell me I was born with a horseshoe up my butt.

Fortune converts everything to the advantage of her favorites.

You always need a bit of fortune in life.

I'd rather have luck on my side than anything else.

Peaky' is the luckiest project I've ever been involved with.

I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!

The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.

May good fortune be your constant companion.

And luck? I've always said about Dizzy Dean that if the roof fell in and Diz was sitting in the middle of the room, everybody else would be buried in the debris and a gumdrop would drop into his mouth.

Good and bad fortune are found severally to visit those who have the most of the one or the other.