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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 Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. |
| Next to excellence is the appreciation of it |
| Next to the very young, the very old are the most selfish |
| Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly. |
| Nothing like blood, sir, in hosses, dawgs, and men |
| Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand |
| People hate as they love, unreasonably. |
| Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman |
| 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. |
| So he sighed and pined and ogled, And his passion boiled and bubbled, Till he blew his silly brains out, And no more was by it troubled. |
| Tell me what find we to admire In epaulets and scarlet coats -- In men, because they load and fire, And know the art of cutting throats? |
| That which we call a snob by any other name would still be snobbish |
| The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. |
| The hidden and awful Wisdom which apportions the destinies of mankind is pleased so to humiliate and cast down the tender, good and wise; and to set up the selfish, the foolish, or the wicked. Oh, be humble, my brother, in your prosperity! Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving. |
| The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish: it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected. |
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Proverb (1469548 st) Search
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Born (10495 st)
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Toplists (6 st)
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