William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: July 18, 1811 - December 24, 1863
Birthday: July 18
Death: December 24
Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.
source: William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.256
topic: Opportunity, Vanity, Feelings, Vanity Fair
