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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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Consistency, madam, is the first of Christian duties.
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And you, madam, are ugly. But I shall be sober in the morning.
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Madam, if you were my wife, I would drink it.
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Shortly after the birth control pill was approved for public distribution, one woman wrote to John Rock, its inventor, "You should be…
— Malcolm Gladwell
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Don't you think I would be a worthy replacement for you, Madam Prime Minister? You have a long nose. So have I.…
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You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?
— Alfred Jarry
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If I was your wife Sir, I'd poison you! Madam, if you were my wife, I'd let you!
— Winston Churchill
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In a man's letters you know, Madam, his soul lies naked, his letters are only the mirror of his breast, whatever passes…
— Samuel Johnson
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I've made it clear, Madam President, that the war against terrorism is not a war against Muslims, nor is it a war…
— George W. Bush
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Ignorance, madam, pure ignorance.
— Samuel Johnson
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WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
— Ambrose Bierce
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