"He that has ears to hear, let him…" — William Makepeace Thackeray

"He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton."

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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183 Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray has 183 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident…
At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and…
Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true…
The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates…
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very…
What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults…
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent…
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 Cotton Quotes

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I thought I was funny as a kid. I used to play tricks on my brothers - I'd tie a… — Jo Brand
I am a huge fan of big cotton underpants; they're comfortable. I wear them every day. — Gisele Bundchen
The white American man makes the white American woman maybe not superfluous but just a little kind of decoration. Not… — Maya Angelou
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation… — Helen Keller
Golf took young kids like Byron Nelson, Ben Hogan and myself out of the caddie ranks and gave us money… — Jimmy Demaret
I am a woman who came from the cotton fields of the South. From there I was promoted to the… — Madam C. J. Walker
One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to… — Sylvia Plath
As Arkwright and Whitney were the demi-gods of cotton, so prolific Time will yet bring an inventor to every plant.… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The rigid electron is in my view a monster in relation to Maxwell's equations, whose innermost harmony is the principle… — Hermann Minkowski
Until 1943 I received no stipend. I was able to support myself as my mother was the daughter of a… — Frederick Sanger
I loved to get all dusty and ride horses and plant potatoes and cotton. — Dorothy Malone
Again and again, the cicada's untiring cry pierced the sultry summer air like a needle at work on thick cotton… — Yukio Mishima

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