Ernest Bramah Quotes

Prohibit the taking of omens, and do away with superstitious doubts. Then, until death itself comes, no calamity need be feared.

My nose itched, and I knew I should drink wine or kiss a fool.

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere.

I believe in superstitions. You don't talk about a child who hasn't been born.

Four is actually my lucky number.

My mother watched the skies at evening for a portent of the morrow. A cloud that went over and then turned around and came back was an especially bad sign.

Never tempt fate. It plays for keeps.

There is something in omens.

If you’re in your life, chance. Viewed from the outside, like a book you’re reading, it’s fate all the way.

Many men, seemingly impelled by fortune, hasten forward to meet misfortune half way.

Certain books come to meet me, as do people.

Omens are everywhere in this world you just have to find the one that fits.

After all, our lives are but a sequence of accidents - a clanking chain of chance events. A string of choices, casual or deliberate, which add up to that one big calamity we call life.

Quite simply the book and I were meant to be together.

It is the mark of an inexperienced man not to believe in luck.

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see

I'm not a believer in luck, but I do believe you need it.

Fate has a strange way of making plans.

Misery and misfortune is all one; and of misfortune fortune hath only the gift.

Many things would be changed for Americans if they would only admit that there is ill-luck in this world and that misfortune is not a priori a crime.

As they who make Good luck a god count all unlucky men.

When you talk about bad luck and you talk about the things that create those circumstances and you talk about what it takes to overcome those circumstances and naturally to me includes, you know, a faith, a very strong faith. It should because through good times and through bad times there is one thing that relieves.

To fate and the strange way that it twists us all together.

Nothing is going to happen to you if you throw salt on the floor, stand under a ladder, or see eight black cats on the street.