William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes About Brothers

Quotes about: Brothers

• He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Brother, Thinking, Giving

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.618, Delphi Classics

• Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to be forced to yield; or to sink out of life, having played and lost the game? That must be a strange feeling, when a day of our life comes and we say, 'To-morrow, success or failure won't matter much; and the sun will rise, and all the myriads of mankind go to their work or their pleasure as usual, but I shall be out of the turmoil.'

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Brother, Games, Yield

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.511

• The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Brother, Children, Grief

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1154, Delphi Classics

• Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Brother, Sick, Bells

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.91

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