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It seems to me one cannot sit...

It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the truth I find there.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

A good woman is the loveliest...

A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Let us people who are so unco...

Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

In effective womanly beauty f...

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

At certain periods of life, w...

At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Where is truth, forsooth, and...

Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does Venus squint? Has she got a splay-foot, red hair, and a crooked back? Anoint my eyes, good Fairy Puck, so that I may ever consider the Beloved Object a paragon! Above all, keep on anointing my mistress's dainty peepers with the very strongest ointment, so that my noddle may ever appear lovely to her, and that she may continue to crown my honest ears with fresh roses!

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Certain it is that scandal is...

Certain it is that scandal is good brisk talk, whereas praise of one's neighbor is by no means lively hearing. An acquaintance grilled, scored, devilled, and served with mustard and cayenne pepper excites the appetite; whereas a slice of cold friend with currant jelly is but a sickly, unrelishing meat.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

For his part, every beauty of...

For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening to fine music, as in looking at the stars in the sky, or at a beautiful landscape or picture, was a benefit for which we might thank Heaven as sincerely as for any other worldly blessing.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

A crow, who had flown away wi...

A crow, who had flown away with a cheese from a dairy window, sate perched on a tree looking down at a great big frog in a pool underneath him.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

How grateful are we--how touc...

How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Who has not remarked the read...

Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

I have seen no men in life lo...

I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves, always go to the play.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Society having ordained certa...

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

I never was much of an oyster...

I never was much of an oyster eater, nor can I relish them 'in naturalibus' as some do, but require a quantity of sauces, lemons, cayenne peppers, bread and butter, and so forth, to render them palatable.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

I will bring order from chaos...

I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Taste is something quite diff...

Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

A woman with fair opportuniti...

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry whom she likes. Only let us be thankful that the darlings are like the beasts of the field, and don't know their own power. They would overcome us entirely if they did.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Life is the soul's nursery. ...

Life is the soul's nursery.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

What man's life is not overta...

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Come forward, some great mars...

Come forward, some great marshal, and organize equality in society, and your rod shall swallow up all the juggling old court gold-sticks

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

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