"Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine……" — William Makepeace Thackeray
"Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce."
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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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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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When your weapons are dulled and ardour damped, your strength exhausted and treasure spent, neighboring rulers will take advantage of…
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When a man has fulfilled all four of these requisites-to be wide awake, to have fear, respect, and absolute assurance-there…
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The major credit I think Jim and I deserve ... is for selecting the right problem and sticking to it.…
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For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and assailed or menaced every class,…
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The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical…
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One disadvantage of being a hog is that at any moment some blundering fool may try to make a silk…
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But alas, the most terrifying aspect of the whole fascist episode is the dark fact that most of its poisons…
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People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has…
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You will go on blundering, for only he who does nothing avoids errors.
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In these days before antiseptics, doctors themselves also suffered high mortality rates. Florence Nightingale, a nurse during the Crimean War…
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You have only to play at Little Wars three or four times to realize just what a blundering thing Great…
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