Frases de William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
Data de nascimento: 18. Julho 1811
Data de falecimento: 24. Dezembro 1863
Outros nomes:William Thackeray, Уильям Теккерей
William Makepeace Thackeray , filho de Richmond Thackeray , secretário do Conselho de Receita da Companhia Britânica das Índias Orientais, e Anne Becher , cujo pai também serviu à Companhia como escritor, foi um romancista britânico de sucesso da Era Vitoriana, autor de obras renomadas como "Feira das Vaidades" , a "História de Henry Esmond" e "As Memórias de Barry Lyndon" , esta última conhecida por sua adaptação para o cinema pelo cineasta Stanley Kubrick, que dirigiu o premiado Barry Lyndon.
Autores parecidos
Tom Hanks2
ator estadunidense
William Shakespeare550
dramaturgo e poeta inglês
Citações William Makepeace Thackeray
„Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.“
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Sketches and Travels, Etc.
Sketches and Travels in London; Mr. Brown's Letters to his Nephew: "On Tailoring — And Toilettes in General" (1856).
„Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.“
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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.
The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), Ch. 13.
„The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.“
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Context: The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.
Vol. I, ch. 2.
„Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.“
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Vol. II, ch. 2.
„All is vanity, nothing is fair.“
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
