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“Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.”

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William Makepeace Thackeray was a prominent British novelist of the Victorian era, born on July 18, 1811, in India, and died on December 24, 1863. He is known for his satirical and humorous writing style and is considered one of the greatest novelists of the 19th century. His most famous work, 'Vanity Fair', is regarded as a classic of English literature. more

“I suppose as long as novels last, and authors aim at interesting their public, there must always be in the story a virtuous and gallant hero; a wicked monster, his opposite; and a pretty girl, who finds a champion. Bravery and virtue conquer beauty; and vice, after seeming to triumph through a certain number of pages, is sure to be discomfited in the last volume, when justice overtakes him, and honest folks come by their own.”

Source: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers

“Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?”

Book Pleasure Expression Laughter Dresses Manners Historian Ridicule Old Time Merriment

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes.”

Persons Eye Common Class Objects Type Notes Observation Noticing

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“Who has not seen how women bully women? What tortures have men to endure compared to those daily repeated shafts of scorn and cruelty with which poor women are riddled by the tyrants of their sex?”

Men Sex Poor Endure Cruelty Torture Tyrants Offense Bully Scorn

Book:Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

Source: Vanity Fair: A Novel Without a Hero

“A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better--especially richer or more fashionable--than he is.”

Men Pretending Something Better Fashionable Pretension Snob

Author:William Makepeace Thackeray

“You can't order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.”

Mind Order Yesterday Remembrance Morrow

Book:The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The Virginians : a tale of the last century ; vol. I

Source: The Works: In Twenty-two Volumes. ¬The Virginians : a tale of the last century ; vol. I

“To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.”

Rich Riches

Book:The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

Source: The Virginians: A Tale of the Last Century

“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.”

Men Play Actors Acting Profession Painter Engaged

Book:The works of William Makepeace Thackeray

Source: The works of William Makepeace Thackeray

“Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?”

Eye Beautiful Beauty

Book:The Virginians: Christie's Collections

Source: The Virginians: Christie's Collections

“As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet we, O foolish race! must try our very best to ape some one or two of our neighbors, whose ideas fit us no more than their breeches!”

Men Trying Made Two Ideas Character Eye Race Fit Neighbor Foolish Every Man Noses Apes

Book:Miscellanies: The Paris sketch book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh. The memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush. The Irish sketch book. Notes of a journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

Source: Miscellanies: The Paris sketch book of Mr. M. A. Titmarsh. The memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush. The Irish sketch book. Notes of a journey from Cornhill to Grand Cairo

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