William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes:
Ocupation: Novelist
Life: July 18, 1811 - December 24, 1863
Birthday: July 18
Death: December 24
There is a certain sort of man whose doom in the world is disappointment, who excels in it, and whose luckless triumphs in his meek career of life, I have often thought, must be regarded by the kind eyes above with as much favor as the splendid successes and achievements of coarser and more prosperous men.
topic: Disappointment, Eye, Careers
