"I think I could be a good woman……" — William Makepeace Thackeray

"I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year"

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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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I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. — David Attenborough
The last four or five hundred years of European contact with Africa produced a body of literature that presented Africa… — Chinua Achebe
My parents were early converts to Christianity in my part of Nigeria. They were not just converts; my father was… — Chinua Achebe
My husband and I had five biological children but we also have been raising 23 foster children. — Michele Bachmann
I'm not only a lawyer, I have a post doctorate degree in federal tax law from William and Mary. I… — Michele Bachmann
I'll come and make love to you at five o'clock. If I'm late start without me. — Tallulah Bankhead
Not only don't I know who I am, but I'm very suspicious of people who do know who they are.… — Tom Baker
He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God… — Abu Bakr
Bush wasn't elected, he was selected - selected by five judges up in Washington who voted along party lines. — Alec Baldwin
Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the last five years. You only… — Steve Ballmer
There are plenty of good five cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. — Franklin P. Adams
I think that the team that wins game five will win the series. Unless we lose game five. — Charles Barkley

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