Famous quotes containing the words thackeray, illness and/or death:
“It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
“...his illness was so severe that there was no breath left in him.”
—Bible: Hebrew, 1 Kings 17:17.
“What we think of as our sensitivity is only the higher evolution of terror in a poor dumb beast. We suffer for nothing. Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.”
—Mario Puzo (b. 1920)