"Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how……" — William Makepeace Thackeray
"Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds."
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183 Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
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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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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and…
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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…
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates…
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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…
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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults…
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent…
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure…
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When a man is to travel into a far country...one staff in his hand may comfortably support him, but a…
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All of us have an 'inner clock,' a certain pace at which we function most comfortably and effectively.
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Men who pass most comfortably through this world are those who possess good digestions and hard hearts.
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To me the definition of true masculinity - and femininity, too - is being able to lay in your own…
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If I deny the authority of the State when it presents my tax bill, it will soon take and waste…
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The Church must never be satisfied with the ranks of those whom she has reached at a certain point or…
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The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted with bribes, led away and…
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People think that if a man has undergone any hardship, he should have a reward; but for my part, if…
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One sits more comfortably on a colour that one likes.
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From the very beginning, I always tried to make dialogue flow comfortably; I always did that to make it seem…
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