William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeraywas an English novelist of the 19th century. He is famous for his satirical works, particularly Vanity Fair, a panoramic portrait of English society...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth18 July 1811
new-year book years
Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of the old and the inauguration of the New Year.
son apollo handsome
If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.
equality men sun
As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.
equality differences meanness
The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.
memories lying heart
To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.
fate past destiny
It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.
brother sick bells
Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?
friends wise surly
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
friends heart friendly
It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
friendship lonely loneliness
We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
courage military heart
I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.
quality contentment great-qualities
The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.
laughter laughing blank
Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
eye class common
We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.