"We are all a great deal luckier that we realize, we usually get what we want - or near enough."

— Roald Dahl, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory 🏵️

"I've got just as much luck with locks as I do hearts. In other words, no luck at all."

— S.D. Lawendowski, Snapped 🏵️

"I'd wish you luck, Willem, but I think you need to stop relying on that"

— Gayle Forman, Just One Year 🏵️

"Fact be virtuous, or vicious, as Fortune pleaseth"

— Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan 🏵️

"There are, he assures her, no such things as curses. There is luck, maybe, bad or good. A slight indication of each day toward success or failure. But no curses."

— Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See 🏵️

"If there was one thing which Sloan had learned over the years it was that you should never underestimate the element of luck in detective work."

— Catherine Aird 🏵️

"There is no such thing as luck. There is only adequate or inadequate preparation to cope with a statistical universe."

— Robert A. Heinlein, Have Space SuitWill Travel 🏵️

"My luck's no greater than yours or any man's. You need only sharpen your eyes to see your luck when it comes, and sharpen your wits to use what falls into your hands."

— Lloyd Alexander, Taran Wanderer 🏵️