William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.
William Makepeace Thackeray
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
William Makepeace Thackeray
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
William Makepeace Thackeray
She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
William Makepeace Thackeray
It is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody
William Makepeace Thackeray
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
William Makepeace Thackeray