"To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you……" — William Makepeace Thackeray
"To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me as lookers-on, would be to describe the most dreary farce, to chronicle the most tautological twaddle. To take note of sighs, hand-squeezes, looks at the moon, and so forth--does this business become our dignity as historians? Come away from those foolish young people--they don't want us; and dreary as their farce is, and tautological as their twaddle, you may be sure it amuses them, and that they are happy enough without us."
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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183 Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
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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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Everyone carries his own inch rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.
— Henry Adams
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Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours,…
— P T Barnum
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It seems to me that every phenomenon, every fact, itself is the really interesting object. Whoever explains it, or connects…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality
— Grace Kelly
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I will accept anything in the theatre . . . provided it amuses or moves me. But if it does…
— Noel Coward
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Do not train children to learning by force and harshness, but direct them to it by what amuses their minds.
— Plato
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I am a hardened and shameless tea drinker, who has, for twenty years, diluted his meals with only the infusion…
— Samuel Johnson
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Light comes to us unexpectedly and obliquely. Perhaps it amuses the gods to try us. They want to see whether…
— H. M. Tomlinson
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American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the…
— Katharine Whitehorn
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It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that…
— Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him.…
— Tahereh Mafi
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I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure;…
— Fernando Botero
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