On parting, thackeray shook hands with his opponent and said, "Good-bye; and may the best man win!"
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
May I recall to him that charming anecdote of thackeray and Viscount Monck, when they were rival candidates for the representation of Oxford in Parliament?
"America To-day, Observations and Reflections"
William Archer
She could remember how Gerry, young-man-wise, had tried to utilise thackeray to show his greater knowledge of the world-had flaunted Piccadilly and Pall Mall before the dazzled eyes of an astonished suburban.
"Somehow Good"
William de Morgan