Accident Quotes, Quotations, and Sayings

13 Accident Quotes
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“Chapter of accidents.”
Edmund Burke Quotes
Source: Notes for Speeches (vol. II, p. 426), (1852 edition)
“Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.”
Charles Dickens Quotes
Source: The Personal History of David Copperfield (ch. XXVIII)
“To what happy accident is it that we owe so unexpected a visit?”
Oliver Goldsmith Quotes
Source: Vicar of Wakefield (ch. XIX)
“Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws.”
Charles Kingsley Quotes
Source: Saint's Tragedy (act II, sc. 4)
“Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident. [Ger., Nichts unter der Sonne ist Zufall--am wenigsten das wovon die Absicht so klar in die Augen leuchtet.]”
Ephraim Gotthold Lessing Quotes
Source: Emilia Galotti (IV, 3)
“At first laying down, as a fact fundamental, That nothing with God can be accidental.”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Quotes
Source: Christus--The Golden Legend (pt. VI)
“By many a happy accident.”
Thomas Middleton Quotes
Source: No Wit, no Help, like a Women's (act IV, sc. 1)
“What the reason of the ant laboriously drags into a heap, the wind of accident will collect in one breadth. [Was der Ameise Vernunft muhsam, zu Haufen schleppt, jagt in einem Hui der Wind des Zufalls zusammen.”
Johann Christoph Friedrich von Schiller Quotes
Source: Fiesco (act II, sc. 4)
“I have shot mine arrow o'er the house And hurt my brother.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Hamlet at V, ii)
“Of moving accidents by flood and field.”
William Shakespeare Quotes
Source: Othello the Moor of Venice (Othello at I, iii)
“A happy accident.”
Madame de Stael (Baronne Anne Louise Germaine de Stael-Holstein) Quotes
Source: L'Allemagne (ch. XVI)
“The accident of an accident.”
Lord Edward Thurlow Quotes
Source: in a speech in reply to Lord Grafton
“The chapter of accidents is the longest chapter in the book.”
Lord Edward Thurlow Quotes
Source: in a speech in reply to Lord Grafton