Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989.
| NUMBER: | 173 |
| AUTHOR: | Théophile Gautier (1811–72) |
| QUOTATION: | Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign. (Le hasard, c’est peut-être le pseudonyme de Dieu, quant il ne veut pas signer.) |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The four authors used pseudonyms to write the letters which compose the book. Gautier wrote the letters signed Edgard de Meilhan. |
| SUBJECTS: | Chance |