“Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”
William Makepeace Thackeray book The Luck of Barry Lyndon
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.”
William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair
Source: Vanity Fair
“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”
William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair
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)
William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair
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.
“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.
William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair
Vol. I, ch. 13.
Source: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)
William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair
Vol. I, ch. 12.
Source: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)
“Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.”
William Makepeace Thackeray book The History of Henry Esmond
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.