“Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray, The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), Ch. 13

About William Makepeace Thackeray

1811 – 1863

English novelist, author of "Vanity Fair".

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

“Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”

“When I say I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them.”

“The better part of valour is discretion; in the which better part I have saved my life.”

“It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.”

“Dictators ride to and fro on tigers from which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.”

“Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.”

“The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.”

“There is always a philosophy for lack of courage.”