| Author |
Quotes |
| Alexander Pope | Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; Bliss is the same in subject or in king. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | Man is not the creature of circumstances, Circumstances are the creatures of men. |
| Benjamin Disraeli | It is circumstances (difficulties) which show what men are. |
| C P Scott | The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances. |
| Charles Dickens | Circumstances beyond my individual control. |
| Charles Haddon Chambers | The long arm of coincidence. |
| Daniel Webster | This fearful concatenation of circumstances. |
| Edward Young | Who does the best that circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly, angels could no more. |
| Henry John Temple Palmerston | Accidental and fortuitous concourse of atoms. |
| Horatius Flaccus | And I endeavour to subdue circumstances to myself, and not myself to circumstances. |
| Horatius Flaccus | What the discordant harmony of circumstances would and could effect. |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | So runs the round of life from hour to hour. |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | And grasps the skirts of happy chance, And breasts the blows of circumstance. |
| Nathaniel Hawthorne | Thus we see, too, in the world that some persons assimilate only what is ugly and evil from the same moral circumstances which supply good and beautiful results-the fragrance of celestial flowers-to the daily life of others. |
| Oliver Goldsmith | To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives. |
| Richard Bentley | Epicureans, that ascribed the origin and frame of the world not to the power of God, but to the fortuitous concourse of atoms. |
| Robert Owen | Man is the creature of circumstances. |
| Thomas Hardy | Man, without religion, is the creature of circumstances. |
| Titus Livy | Men's plans should be regulated by the circumstances, not circumstances by the plans. |
| Unattributed Author | Odd instances of strange coincidence. |
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