106 ordspråk av William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray föddes den July 18th 1811 och dog den 24 December 1863 - of 'Vanity Fair'.
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 Everybody in Vanity Fair must have remarked how well those live who are comfortably and thoroughly in debt; how they deny themselves nothing; how jolly and easy they are in their minds. |
| Everyone knows the harm the bad do, but who knows the mischief done by the good? |
| Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies. |
| Fiction carries a greater amount of truth in solution than the volume which purports to be all true. |
| Follow your honest convictions and be strong |
| For a steady self-esteem and indomitable confidence in our own courage, greatness, magnanimity, who can compare with Britons, except their children across the Atlantic? |
| Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. |
| Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society. |
| He that hath ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton. |
| Heaven does not choose its elect from among the great and wealthy. |
| How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! |
| How to live well on nothing a year. |
| Humor is wit and love. |
| I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do -- a Work, if you like, with a great W; a Purpose to fulfil. |
| I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses. |
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Proverb (1469552 st) Search
Categories (2627 st) Search
Authors (167535 st) Search
Photos (4592 st)
Born (10495 st)
Died (3318 st)
Dates (9517 st)
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Lengths
Toplists (6 st)
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