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William Makepeace Thackeray
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William Makepeace Thackeray
Age: 52 †
Born: 1811
Born: July 18
Died: 1863
Died: December 24
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The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.
William Makepeace Thackeray
What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
William Makepeace Thackeray
She lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all! His looks and tones, his dress, what he said and how — these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that were left her in the world.
William Makepeace Thackeray
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
William Makepeace Thackeray
There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there we have all had the fever--the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.
William Makepeace Thackeray
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
William Makepeace Thackeray
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.
William Makepeace Thackeray
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
William Makepeace Thackeray
As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.
William Makepeace Thackeray
If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?
William Makepeace Thackeray
We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
William Makepeace Thackeray
...the greatest tyrants over women are women.
William Makepeace Thackeray
This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is - A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outdo Green herbs, red peppers, mussels, saffron, Soles, onions, garlic, roach, and dace All these you eat at Terre's tavern, In that one dish of Bouillabaisse.
William Makepeace Thackeray
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Business first pleasure afterwards.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.
William Makepeace Thackeray
