For by the will of the gods Fate hath held sway since ancient days.

-Aeschylus
Persae, l.102 (translated by H  Weir Smyth).

G×th a wyrd swa hio scel. Fate always goes as it must.

-Anonymous
c.800  Beowulf, l.455.

Wyrd oft nereth unf×gne eorl thonne his ellen deah. Fate often preserves the undoomed warrior when his courage holds firm.

-Anonymous
c.800  Beowulf, l.572^3.

Yet they, believe me, who await No gifts from chance, have conquered fate.

-Arnold, Matthew
  The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems,'Resignation', l.247^8.

Fate wrote her a most tremendous tragedy, and she played it in tights.

-Beerbohm, Sir (Henry) Max(imilian)
  Of Queen Caroline of Brunswick. TheYellow Book, vol.3.

The whore and gambler, by the state Licensed build that nation's fate. The harlot's cry from street to street Shall weave old England's winding sheet.

-Blake,William
c.1803  Auguries of Innocence, l.113^6

Whatever maydivideus,Europe is ourcommonhome. A common fate has linked us through the centuries, and it continues to link us today.

-Brezhnev, Leonid Ilyich
  Speech while visiting the Federal Republic of Germany, 23 Nov.

For money has a power above The stars and fate, to manage love.

-Butler, Samuel
  Hudibras, pt.3, canto 3, l.1279^80.

La politique et le sort des hommes sont forme¤  s par des hommes sans ide¤  al et sans grandeur. Ceux qui ont une grandeur en eux ne font pas de politique. Politics and the fate of mankind are shaped by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.

-Camus, Albert
Carnets,1935^42 (published1962).

Il n'est pas de destin que ne se surmonte par le me¤  pris. There is no fate that cannot be surmounted by scorn.

-Camus, Albert
  Le Mythe de Sisyphe ( The Myth of Sisyphus,1955).

Fate's such a shrewish thing.

-Chapman, George
The Iliads of Homer Prince of Poets, bk.4, l.21.

Faber est suae quisque fortunae. Each man is the architect of his own fate.

-Claudius Caecus, Appius
Quoted in Sallust  Ad Caesarem Senem de Re Publica Oratio, ch.1, section 2.

Few evade full measure of their fate.

-Crane, (Harold) Hart
  The Bridge,'The River'.

The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

-Defoe, Daniel
  'Character of the Late Dr  Annesley'.

Such is our pride, our folly, or our fate, That few, but such as cannot write, translate.

-Denham, SirJohn
  'To Richard Fanshaw'.

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

-Disraeli, Benjamin, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield
  Speech, House of Commons,15  Jun.

All human things are subject to decay, And, when fate summons, monarchs must obey.

-Dryden,John
  MacFlecknoe (published1682), l.1^2.

What I have left is from my native spring; I've still a heart that swells, in scorn of fate, And lifts me to my banks.

-Dryden,John
  All for Love, or The World Well Lost, act 3.

For those whom God to ruin has designed, He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind.

-Dryden,John
  The Hind and the Panther, pt.3, l.1093^4.

Arms, and the man I sing, who, forced by fate, And haughty Juno's unrelenting hate, Expelled and exiled, left theTrojan shore.

-Dryden,John
  Aeneis (his translation of  Virgil's  Aeneid), bk.1, l.1^3.