William Makepeace Thackeray Short Quotes

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He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.

William Makepeace Thackeray
Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

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

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The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.

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Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.

William Makepeace Thackeray
For a slashing article, sir, there's nobody like the Capting.
Mr Bungay

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I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.

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

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

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

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It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.

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How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy!

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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.

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

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That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish.

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Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.

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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.

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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.

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The great quality of Dulness is to be unalterably contented with itself.

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If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.

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It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.

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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.

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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.

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I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.

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Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.

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I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.

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

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If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!

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