Frases célebres de William M. Thackeray
William M. Thackeray: Frases en inglés
“Bravery never goes out of fashion.”
"George II".
Four Georges (1860-1861)
Fuente: Four Georges and the English Humourists
Fuente: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 6.
Contexto: 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.
“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.
Ballads http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/8bwmt10.txt, The Ballad of Bouillabaisse, st. 2 (1855).
Thackeray, William Makepeace. Nov. 1840, A Collection of Letters (1887). Ardent Media. p. 36.
The Age of Wisdom, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Yes, I am a fatal man, Madame Fribsbi. To inspire hopeless passion is my destiny.”
Fuente: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 23.
A Credo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The Mahogany Tree, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Fuente: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 42.
“It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.”
"George III".
Four Georges (1860-1861)
Bk. I, ch. 6.
The History of Henry Esmond (1852)
“Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.”
Fuente: The Virginians (1857-1859), Ch. 61.
“Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for any one who dies.”
Letter to Mrs. Bryan Waller Procter (26 November 1856), from The Letters and Private Papers of William Makepeace Thackeray, ed. Edgar F. Harden [Garland Publishing, Inc., 1994, ISBN 9780824036461], vol. 1, p. 763.
“The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.”
In this work are exhibited in a very high degree the two most engaging powers of an author. New things are made familiar, and familiar things are made new. ~ Samuel Johnson, "The Life of Alexander Pope" from Lives of the English Poets (1781) http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lvpc10.txt
Misattributed
“Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.”
Lovel the Widower (1860), Ch. 6.
“I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.”
Vol. II, ch. 6.
Vanity Fair (1847–1848)
The End of the Play, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
