• It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

    William Makepeace Thackeray: It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
    William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques”, p.438