Famous quotes containing the words thackeray, illness and/or death:
“How to live well on nothing a year.”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)
“Thou wouldst be great;
Art not without ambition, but without
The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly
That wouldst thou holily; wouldst not play false,
And yet wouldst wrongly win.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“The death of Satan was a tragedy
For the imagination.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)