William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes - Page 11

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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

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  Respect, Years, Enjoy Life

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

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• The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.

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  Journalism, Chairs, Editorials

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Roundabout Papers”, p.76

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• Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.

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  Mean, Old Friends, Scandal

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.285

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• Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

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  Sweet, Clever, Men

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.221

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• The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.

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  Reflection, Men, Glasses

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.540, Delphi Classics

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• it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody

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  People, No Friends, Ordinary

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.662, Delphi Classics

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• If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!

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  Book, Reading, Writing

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2008). “The History of Pendennis (Volume 2 of 2 ) (EasyRead Edition)”, p.51, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.

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  Gratitude, Pain, Cheer

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.2974, Delphi Classics

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• To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.

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  Envy, Laughing, Stupidity

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• 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.

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  Disappointment, Eye, Careers

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Paris sketch book. Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush. The Irish sketch book. Notes of a journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo”, p.505

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• The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears, such as your end, brother reader, will never inspire.

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  Brother, Children, Grief

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1154, Delphi Classics

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• Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

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  Vision, Privilege, Youth

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1848). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.28

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• If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.

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  Over You, Juggernaut, Wheels

  William Makepeace Thackeray, Edgar F. Harden (2005). “The Snobs of England: And, Punch's Prize Novelists”, p.11, University of Michigan Press

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• Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

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  Conquer

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1868). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.50

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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.

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  Love, Wall, Holiday

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

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• I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

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  Men, Play, Acting

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.155

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• I would rather make my name than inherit it.

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  Inspirational, Attitude, Names

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Virginians”, p.242, Xist Publishing

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• The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don't know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment's influence of that familiar, irresistible smile.

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  Night, Tears, Care

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.159, Diversion Books

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

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  Rose, Fairy, Sometimes

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

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

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  Happiness, Book, Chaps

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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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• 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.

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  Wise, Justice, Usual

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

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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?

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  Brother, Sick, Bells

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

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• Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year.

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  Women, Winning, Boys

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads”, p.565

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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.

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  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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