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William Makepeace Thackeray has 191 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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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Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the…
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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…
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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of…
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style…
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he…
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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she…
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be…
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Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue.
— Confucius
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Like a fine flower, beautiful to look at but without scent, fine words are fruitless in a man who does not act…
— Gautama Buddha
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Fine words lack all meaning when we are confronted by real suffering.
— Paulo Coelho
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Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable…
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?
— Laozi
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When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple…
— Johann Kaspar Lavater
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The Tao is the center of the universe, the good man's treasure, the bad man's refuge. Honors can be bought with fine…
— Laozi
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It is good food and not fine words that keeps me alive.
— Moliere
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There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips.
— Walter Scott
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If you ever get twenty-five years for nothing, if you find yourself wearing four number patches on your clothes, holding your hands…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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I live on good soup, not on fine words.
— Moliere
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Food prices are often kept artificially high. The result is that the Millennium Development Goals set out by the United Nations at…
— Jonathan Sacks
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