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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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The same intelligence is required to marshal an army in battle and to order a good dinner. The first must be as…
— Plutarch
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Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.
— Samuel Pepys
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It is not greedy to enjoy a good dinner, any more than it is to enjoy a good concert. But I do…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a…
— Jean Anouilh
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The human frame being what it is, heart, body and brain all mixed together, and not contained in separate compartments as they…
— Virginia Woolf
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Why should I refuse a good dinner simply because I don't understand the digestive processes involved?
— Oliver Heaviside
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It is easy enough to be moral after a good dinner beside a snug coal fire, and with our hearts well warmed…
— Henry Mayhew
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The best reply to an atheist is to give him a good dinner and ask him if he believes there is a…
— Louis Nizer
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This was a good dinner enough, to be sure, but it was not a dinner to ask a man to.
— Samuel Johnson
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Criticized for using formal mathematical manipulations, without understanding how they worked: Should I refuse a good dinner simply because I do not…
— Oliver Heaviside
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[My ideal of a good dinner] is to discuss good food, and, after this good food has been discussed, to discuss a…
— Winston Churchill
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I'm a really good dinner party guest. I am always so appreciative, impressed that anyone has even managed to turn on the…
— Lucy Punch
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