Books Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray

“When the lion falls the lesser beasts move in: the jackals and the vultures and the feral dogs.”

— George R.R. Martin

I have never as yet gone a step to see a literary lion; but I would go a considerable way to see Emerson, this…

— Fredrika Bremer

“Men of England, heirs of Glory, Heroes of unwritten story, Nurslings of one mighty Mother, Hopes of her, and one another; Rise like Lions…

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Have the mind of a fox, the heart of a lion, the tongue of a serpent, the flair of a swan, and the soul…

— Matshona Dhliwayo

“As to acknowledging that he was about to obtain a triumph with the ideas of another man, he never thought of such a thing.…

— Émile Gaboriau

“Chaotic Of Echoes The Lands Darkest Hours Of Lions Architect the Garlots of War The Precognitions”

— Philippa Ballantine

“We must tell stories the way God does, stories in which a sister must float her little brother on a river with nothing but…

— N.D. Wilson

“History is alwys written by victors, and the defeated create a new set of myths to explain the past and gild the future”

— Morris West

“I love the writers of my thousand books. It pleases me to think how astonished old Homer, whoever he was, would be to find…

— Marilynne Robinson

“His copy was full of lofty echoes: Greek Tragedy; Damocle's sword; manna from heaven; the myth of Sisyphus; the last of the Mohicans; hydra-headed…

— Tarun J. Tejpal

“And then earlier than that there were the crusades. The crusades were totally fucked. Richard the Lionheart, who had the heart of a lion…

— Eddie Izzard

“Only in art will the lion lie down with the lamb, and the rose grows without the thorn”

— Martin Amis