Barry Lyndon Quotes

“It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. written by himself

“Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon

“A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. written by himself

“But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrow seem, and how small they are; how we think we shall die of grief, and how quickly we forget, I think we ought to be ashamed of ourselves and our fickle-heartedness. For, after all, what business has Time to bring us consolation?”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon

“And by these wonderful circumstances I was once more free again: and I kept my resolution then made, never to fall more into the hands of any recruiter, and henceforth and for ever to be a gentleman.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon

“Aún hubiera sucedido que, tras aposentarme en la ciudadela, fuera repentinamente presa del pánico y tuviera que salir huyendo, como los británicos huyeron de Cartagena.”
― Thackeray William Makepeace, Barry Lyndon

“But it's a changeable world! When we consider how great our sorrows SEEM, and how small they ARE; how we think we shall die of grief, and how quickly we forget, I think we ought to be ashamed of ourselves and our fickle-heartedness.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.

“His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality.”
― William Makepeace Thackeray, Barry Lyndon

“Blifil's failure as a character in "Tom Jones" is ultimately due to the fact that he has absolutely no redeeming characteristics and once his base nature has been discovered by the reader there is nothing further to know about hi,”
― Martin J. Anisman, Barry Lyndon

“Thackeray is careful not to present a protagonist who is malevolently evil from birth; to trace a figure like this is unrewarding certainly to novelist and reader alike.”
― Martin J. Anisman, Barry Lyndon