"Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome……" — William Makepeace Thackeray
"Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things."
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183 Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray has 183 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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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More Fairy Quotes
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We cannot pass our guardian angel's bounds, resigned or sullen, he will hear our sighs.
— Saint Augustine
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Those of us who can remember our childhoods will recall how ardently we relished the moment of the bedtime story,…
— Paul Auster
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I like Cinderella, I really do. She has a good work ethic. I appreciate a good, hard-working gal. And she…
— Amy Adams
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Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the…
— Douglas Adams
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Do you believe in fairies? Say quick that you believe. If you believe, clap your hands!
— James M. Barrie
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To me in my childhood, elves and fairies of all sorts were very real things, and my dolls were as…
— Annie Besant
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It is not because angels are holier than men or devils that makes them angels, but because they do not…
— William Blake
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I don't really care what people tell children - when you believe in Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny and the…
— Julie Burchill
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I acquired a hunger for fairy tales in the dark days of blackout and blitz in the Second World War.
— A. S. Byatt
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All the ancient classic fairy tales have always been scary and dark.
— Helena Bonham Carter
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I was a great reader of fairy tales. I tried to read the entire fairy tale section of the library.
— Beverly Cleary
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You should treat a muse like a fairy.
— Paulo Coelho
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