William Makepeace Thackeray quotes
English Novelist, Writer July 18, 1811 – December 24, 1863
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A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Your comedy and mine will have been played then, and we shall be removed
William Makepeace Thackeray

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.
William Makepeace Thackeray

It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
William Makepeace Thackeray

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
William Makepeace Thackeray

...to be skillful in domestic duties was surely one of the most charming of woman's qualities.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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