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Letter "W" » William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
«Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.»
«Life is the soul's nursery -Its training place for the destinies of eternity.»
«We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people -- leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.»
«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.»
«Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
box, played out, puppet, puppets, shut up, The Box
«There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
diamonds, sham, shams, vice versa
«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.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
benevolent, contemplative, draws, generates, pipe, shuts, The Philosopher, thoughtful, unaffected
«Bravery never goes out of fashion»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
| About:
Bravery
| Keywords:
bravery, goes out, out of fashion
«Ah vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of fate are, How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are»
«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.»
Author: William Makepeace Thackeray
(Author, Novelist)
| Keywords:
airs, deluge, deluges, haughty, laughed, pedigree, pedigrees, pretensions, sensible, The Deluge
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