“Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”
The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), Ch. 13.
Context: Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.
“Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.”
Source: Vanity Fair
“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”
Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. Vol. II, ch. 27.
Source: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)
Vol. I, ch. 19.
Source: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)
“A good laugh is sunshine in a house”
Variant: A good laugh is a sunshine in a house.
Vol. II, ch. 27.
Source: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)
“Bravery never goes out of fashion.”
"George II".
Four Georges (1860-1861)
Source: Four Georges and the English Humourists
Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 6.
Context: It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. Some of us can't: and are proud of our impotence, too.
“A person can't help their birth.”
Source: Vanity Fair
Vol. I, ch. 13.
Source: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)
Vol. I, ch. 12.
Source: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)
“Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.”
Bk. I, ch. 7.
The History of Henry Esmond (1852)
The Rose and the Ring http://www.gutenberg.org/files/897/897-h/897-h.htm#2H_4_0004 (1855), Ch. 2.
“The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.”
The Newcomes http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext05/newcm10.txt (1853-1855), Ch. 9.