William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes - Page 12

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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!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  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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• A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Marriage, Opportunity, May

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “Vanity Fair”, p.40, BookRix

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

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Drinking, Character, Alcohol

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

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• For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Art, Stars

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2000). “Vanity Fair: (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.928, Modern Library

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  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.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Sweet, Clever, Men

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

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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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• Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Beautiful, Eye, Hair

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Virginians: Christie's Collections”, p.126, 谷月社

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• To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh, ladies! how many of you have surreptitious milliners' bills? How many of you have gowns and bracelets which you daren't show, or which you wear trembling?--trembling, and coaxing with smiles the husband by your side, who does not know the new velvet gown from the old one, or the new bracelet from last year's, or has any notion that the ragged-looking yellow lace scarf cost forty guineas and that Madame Bobinot is writing dunning letters every week for the money!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Husband, Writing, Years

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1026, Delphi Classics

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• Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless sport, the pleasure and the passion, the darling joy.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Sports, Lying, Passion

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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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