Mémoires de Barry Lyndon (The Luck of Barry Lyndon), 1844
William Makepeace Thackeray citations célèbres
L’Histoire de Henry Esmond (The History of Henry Esmond), 1852
La Foire aux vanités (Vanity Fair), 1848
William Makepeace Thackeray: Citations en anglais
“He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.”
The Book of Snobs http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/snobs10.txt (1848), ch. 2.
Sorrows of Werther, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Sorrows of Werther, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 30.
Pendennis: At the Church Gate, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The History of Pendennis (1848-1850)
“I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.”
Source: The Virginians (1857-1859), Ch. 56.
"George III"
Said by Princess Augusta to her son, George III
Four Georges (1860-1861)