William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes - Page 6

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• 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Women, Angel, Thinking

  The History of Henry Esmond bk. 1, ch. 7 (1852)

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• Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Vanity, Wicked, Foolish

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair (Diversion Classics)”, p.103, Diversion Books

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• It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Rich Or Poor, Ugly, Handsome

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2014). “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fate, Destiny, Past

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Catherine. Little travels The Fitz-Boodle papers, etc. etc”, p.89

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• Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the circumstance which gave them a being.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart, Quality, Endurance

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1852). “The history of Henry Esmond, esq”, p.50

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• A woman may possess the wisdom and chastity of Minerva, and we give no heed to her, if she has a plain face. What folly will not a pair of bright eyes make pardonable? What dullness may not red lips are sweet accents render pleasant? And 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, Sweet, Eye

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2017). “Vanity Fair”, p.321, Pan Macmillan

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• The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Life, Pleasure, Inferiors

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1854). “The Newcomes : memoirs of a most respectable family”, p.167

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• Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fashion, Different, Taste

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• What is a gentleman? It is to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to be wise; and possessed of all these qualities to exercise them in the most graceful manner.

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  Wise, Exercise, Brave

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2005). “The Snobs of England: And, Punch's Prize Novelists”, p.8, University of Michigan Press

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• In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Grace, Faces, Form

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• Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Food, Talking, Cooking

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• Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Gossip, World, Deals

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1873). “Works”, p.439

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• Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence gives confidence. There is promise to pay in their faces which gives confidence and you prefer it to another man's endorsement. Character is credit.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Character, Men, Giving

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• We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Friendship, Lonely, Loneliness

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.362

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• Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the bottom of it.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Book, Done, World

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq.”, p.6, Booklassic

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• Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that conversation, and renew their own early times.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Women, Love Is, Giving

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1873). “Works”, p.457

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• Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Love, Young Friends, Sometimes

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1859). “The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century”, p.68

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• All amusements to which virtuous women are not admitted, are, rely upon it, deleterious in their nature.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Rely Upon, Amusement, Virtuous Woman

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• A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.

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  Men, Thinking, Circles

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• Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Children, Play, Childhood

  Vanity Fair ch. 67 (1847 - 1848)

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• if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and trameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably!

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Heart, Differences, Deuces

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1854). “Vanity Fair, etc”, p.92

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• Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Gratitude, Kindness, Children

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1849). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero. To which is Added Doctor Birch, and His Young Friends”, p.33

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• I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do-a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil; ... a Great Social Evil to Discover and to Remedy.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Long, Evil, Mind

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The book of snobs; and Sketches and travels in London”, p.2

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• In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Home, Parent, Kind

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair”, p.190, Tyché

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• Pray God, keep us simple.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Simple, Simplicity, Praying

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