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| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 636 |
| AUTHOR: | John Dryden (1631–1700) |
| QUOTATION: | Fortune, that with malicious joy Does man her slave oppress, Proud of her office to destroy, Is seldom pleas’d to bless. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | JOHN DRYDEN, “Horace, the Twenty-Ninth Ode of the Third Book,” stanza 9, The Poetical Works of Dryden, new ed. rev. and enl., ed. George R. Noyes, p. 200 (1950). |
| SUBJECTS: | Fortune |
| WORKS: | John Dryden Collection |
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