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You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Judging, Snob, Shows

William Makepeace Thackeray (1856). “The Book of Snobs”, p.3

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Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years lease

William Makepeace Thackeray

Respect, Years, Enjoy Life

William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.206

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The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Equality, Differences, Meanness

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To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie hidden away under ground, along with the idle titles engraven on your coffin? But only true love lives after you, follows your memory with secret blessings or pervades you, and intercedes for you. Non omnis moriar, if, dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am lost and hopeless, living, if a sainted departed soul still loves and prays for me.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Memories, Lying, Heart

William Makepeace Thackeray (1925). “The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Queen Anne: Written by Himself”

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Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?

William Makepeace Thackeray

Brother, Sick, Bells

William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.91

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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

Night, Sky, Growth

William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.47, Diversion Books

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How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Happiness, Book, Chaps

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So, with their usual sense of justice, ladies argue that because a woman is handsome, therefore she is a fool. O ladies, ladies! there are some of you who are neither handsome nor wise.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Wise, Justice, Usual

William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.929, Delphi Classics

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Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Mind, Novelty, Charm

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The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Contentment, Quality, Great Qualities

William Makepeace Thackeray (1857). “Miscellanies: Prose and Verse. ¬The Fitz-Boodle papers. Men's wives. A shabby genteel story. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond”, p.87

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Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Rose, Fairy, Sometimes

William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads”, p.460

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Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because they are out of reach; as holiday music from within a prison wall--or sunshine seen through the bars; more prized because unattainable--more bright because of the contrast of present darkness and solitude, whence there is no escape.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Love, Wall, Holiday

William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.125

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She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

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Drinking, Character, Alcohol

William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.607, Delphi Classics

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As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Equality, Men, Rays

William Makepeace Thackeray (1867). “Pendennis”, p.394

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A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Book, Tree, Crow

William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family”, p.1

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Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

William Makepeace Thackeray

Equality, Gold, Sticks

William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.100

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The play is done; the curtain drops,
Slow falling to the prompter's bell
A moment yet the actor stops
And looks around to say farewell.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Fall, Farewell, Play

William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.7516, Delphi Classics

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Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.

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Blind, Affair, Kitten

William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The History of Pendennis”, p.15, Booklassic

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We love being in love, that's the truth on't.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Love, Sweet, Truth

William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The History of Henry Esmond, Esq: Colonel in the Service of Her Majesty Q. Anne, Written by Himself”, p.71

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

William Makepeace Thackeray

Real, Deceit, Bitterness

William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The memoirs of Barry Lyndon. The history of Samuel Titmarsh and the great Hoggarty diamond. Burlesques”, p.438

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Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Christmas, Glasses, Praying

William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads”, p.424

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One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Eye, Style, Tears

William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “The English humourists of the eighteenth century: a series of lectures”, p.276

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Could the best and kindest of us who depart from the earth have an opportunity of revisiting it, I suppose he or she (assuming that any Vanity Fair feelings subsist in the sphere whither we are bound) would have a pang of mortification at finding how soon our survivors were consoled.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Opportunity, Vanity, Feelings

William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.256

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It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Spiritual, Different, Opinion

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Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Clever, People, Talent

William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “The Christmas Books of Mr. M.a.titmarsh: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.220, ReadHowYouWant.com

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Born: July 18, 1811
Died: December 24, 1863
Occupation: Novelist
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