Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray

‘No business before breakfast, Glum!’ says the King. ‘Breakfast first, business next.’

Breakfast

Business

Kings

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

Angel

Thinking

Women

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[As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.

Devil

Men

Soul

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A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.

Beauty

Clever

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A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.

Book

Crow

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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.

Circles

Men

Thinking

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

Happiness

Inspiration

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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.

Eye

Love

Past

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A person can’t help their birth.

Birth

Helping

Persons

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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.

Eye

Sweet

Wise

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