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William Makepeace Thackeray
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„This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is —A sort of soup or broth, or brew,Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes,That Greenwich never could outdo.“
„To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted by no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; and to forgo even ambition when the end is gained — who can say this is not greatness?“
„Them’s my sentiments.“
„The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.“
„She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But this lady was no better born than many other ladies who give themselves airs; and all sensible people laughed at her absurd pretensions.“
„Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.“
„I should like to see before I die, and think of it daily more and more, the commencement of Jesus Christ’s christianism in the world, where I am sure people may be made a hundred times happier than by its present forms, Judaism, ascenticism, Bullarism.“
„Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chinThat never has known the barber’s shear,All your wish is woman to win,This is the way that boys begin.Wait till you come to Forty Year.“
„Then sing as Martin Luther sang,As Doctor Martin Luther sang,“Who loves not wine, woman and song,He is a fool his whole life long.”“
„Christmas is here:Winds whistle shrill,Icy and chill.Little care we;Little we fearWeather without,Sheltered aboutThe Mahogany Tree.“
„If a secret history of books could be written, and the author’s private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!“
„It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.“
„And as every one of their dear sex is the rival of the rest of her kind, timidity passes for folly in their charitable judgements; and gentleness for dullness; and silence — which is but timid denial of the unwelcome assertion of ruling folks, and tacit protestantism — above all, finds no mercy at the hands of the female Inquisition.“
„The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.“
„Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.“
„George, be a King!“
„I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.“
„Although I enter not,Yet round about the spotOfttimes I hover;And near the sacred gateWith longing eyes I wait,Expectant of her.“
„Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.“
„Charlotte, having seen his bodyBorne before her on a shutter,Like a well-conducted person,Went on cutting bread and butter.“
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