William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes - Page 9

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• For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Believe, Men, Moral

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1853). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.354

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• What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he not make others suffer, so that he may ease his selfish heart?

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  Love, Selfish, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Henry Esmond: And Lovel the Widower”, p.155

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• I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good.

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  Comfort, Want, Intimate

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1871). “Miscellanies: The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval and other stories”, p.124

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• The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

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  Heaven, Coquette, Bless

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.29, Delphi Classics

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• When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.

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  Mother, Daughter, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Newcomes: Memoirs of a Most Respectable Family”, p.197

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• That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.

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  Prayer, Thinking, Temptation

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.5638, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

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  Get Well, Book, Men

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Book of Snobs: And, Sketches and Travels in London ; [Character Sketches]”, p.282

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• Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

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  Modesty, Diffidence, False Modesty

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• If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was.

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  Son, Handsome, Apollo

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1849). “Vanity fair. With illustr. by the author”, p.19

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• Humor is the mistress of tears.

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  Humor, Mistress, Tears

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• Perhaps there is no greater test of a man's regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof.

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  Blessed, Men, Naughty

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2015). “The History of Pendennis: Christie's Collections”, p.537, 谷月社

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• I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.

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  Girl, Hero, Opposites

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.158

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• Sure, occasion is the father of most that is good in us.

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  Father, Occasions

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.2331, Delphi Classics

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• Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into the next world. Into that next and awful world we strive to pursue men, and send after them our impotent paltry verdicts of condemnation or acquittal. We set up our paltry little rod to measure heaven immeasurable.

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  Men, Heaven, Wish

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.1951, Delphi Classics

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• An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.

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  Home, Intelligent, Wife

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• So they pass away: friends, kindred, the dearest-loved, grown people, aged, infants. As we go on the down-hill journey, the mile-stones are grave-stones, and on each more and more names are written; unless haply you live beyond man's common age, when friends have dropped off, and, tottering, and feeble, and unpitied, you reach the terminus alone.

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  Journey, Men, Names

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.310

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• Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?

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  Coffee, Tea, Doe

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1850). “The Kickleburys on the rhine: By M. A. Titmarsh”, p.9

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• We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.

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  Years, Water, People

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The book of snobs. Sketches and travels in London. Denis Duval”, p.131

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• At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the least headache in the morning, I give you my word; on the contrary, you only wake with a sweet refreshing thirst for claret and water.

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  Sweet, Morning, Food

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Roundabout Papers (from the Cornhill Magazine): To which is Added The Second Funeral of Napoleon”, p.177

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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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• I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valor so far beyond every other quality for reward and worship.

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  Courage, Military, Heart

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1865). “Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero”, p.96

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• If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations.

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  Men, Errors, World

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2016). “Vanity Fair”, p.205, Tyché

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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 I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?

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  Friendship, Use, Bitterness

  William Makepeace Thackeray (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Makepeace Thackeray (Illustrated)”, p.9070, Delphi Classics

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• 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.

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  Cooking, Roaches, Taverns

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1870). “Catherine. Titmarsch among pictures and books. Fraser miscellanies. Christmas books. Ballads”, p.557

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