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Own Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
- It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful…
- When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money,…
- Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that…
- A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like…
- We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors:…
- The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
- If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his…
- The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn…
- And oh, what a mercy it is that these women do not exercise their powers oftener! We can't resist them, if they do. Let them…
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- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because… — Aristotle
- I believe that the whole idea of the consumer society is tottering. We've kept ourselves going by producing more and more goods,… — Paul Auster
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- Punk has always been about doing things your own way. What it represents for me is ultimate freedom and a sense of… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I think it's your own choice if you turn from an angry young man to a bitter, old bastard. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- I like being a strong, independent woman, and to be honest, I was never afraid to be on my own. — Dido Armstrong
- We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity. — Karen Armstrong
- And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that… — Isaac Asimov