Boxes Quote by William Makepeace Thackeray Download Open image “Come children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.” — William Makepeace Thackeray ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Boxes Childhood Children Play Puppets Shut up Vanity fair
“What are we (I ask) but puppets in a show-box? Oh, omnipotent Destiny, pull our strings gently! Dance us mercifully off our moserable little… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Children are so used to seeing puppets that when they see a real ventriloquist they don't understand it. — Paul Winchell Copy Share Image
“We are puppets dancing on the strings of those who came before us, and one day our own children will take up our strings… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Puppets can get away with saying things that human beings can't. Because they are cartoonish just to look at, they're not real, you can… — Paul F. Tompkins Copy Share Image
I hate puppets so much. I dream about puppets all night. I see strings on people. The nice thing is we can just take… — Trey Parker Copy Share Image
I could never be on stage on my own. But puppets can say things that humans can't say. — Nina Conti Copy Share Image
“Die on me again, and I’m going to fucking piss on your grave. Shit no—I’m going to sell every single damned song we have… — Rhys Ford Copy Share Image
What puppets we humans are - what puppets! Born without permission, dying when it is neither pleasant nor convenient, we are made to march… — Kate Langley Bosher Copy Share Image
A lot of the strings that hold us like puppets are really inventions of our own minds. I'm not saying that there aren't armies and police and various ways to punish deviants, but there isn't any way to punish a large number of deviants. It's too expensive to even try. So, the solution is to colonize the minds of children… — John Taylor Gatto Copy Share
“To those great geniuses now in petticoats, who shall write novels for the beloved reader's children, these men and things will be as much… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
When I step into the batters box. The fans, the noise, the cheers, they all disappear. For that moment, the world is just a… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
I separated the joints, the arm joints, the leg joints, and had to do two boilings. I think I used four boxes of Soilex… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in these paper and leathern… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He decided then that he would love her forever no matter what came to pass. It was not so much a matter of deciding… — David Guterson Copy Share Image
I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green Copy Share Image
I have nothing but praise for the boy. He is easily the best player in the world. His contribution as a goal threat is… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
The recurrent laryngeal nerve - which runs from the head to the voice box - goes all the way down into the chest, loops… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
3 people get stranded on a remote Island A Banker, a Daily Mail reader & an Asylum seeker All they have to eat is… — Christopher Brookmyre Copy Share Image
Unpleasant questions are being raised about Mother's Day. Is this day necessary? . . . Isn't it bad public policy? . . . No… — Russell Baker Copy Share Image
I could party in a cardboard box with people who are funny and don't care. For me, it's really about who I surround myself… — Kesha Copy Share Image