William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes

It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now

William Makepeace Thackeray

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• Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Great
  • History
  • Progress

• Canada is rich in hydrocarbons and other natural resources... India's requirements and Canada's surplus are a perfect match.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Perfect
  • Rich
  • Canada

• I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Books
  • Ugly
  • Universal

• Anyone who has been to India - specifically Rajasthan, the rich and kingly region in the country's northwest - knows that when it comes to adornment, Indians do not think like other people.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • People
  • Country
  • Think

• Make the people sovereign and the poor will use the machinery of government to dispossess the rich.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • People
  • Government
  • Rich

• Liberal judges tend to be expansive about things like equal protection, while conservatives read more into ones like 'the right to bear arms.'

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Equal
  • Bear
  • Judges

• I just want to be rich and famous.

  

  Ian Hart
  • Want
  • Famous
  • Rich

• To denigrate the union movement in this way is to denigrate the right and the ability of people who are not rich to organize and to accomplish things together.

  

  Warren Beatty
  • People
  • Together
  • Rich

• I've felt ugly and insecure.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • Ugly
  • Felt
  • Insecure

• I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Me
  • Child
  • Poor

• I sort of fall in love with every character I do; you have to understand how they became what they've become, whether they're the ugly kind or the very beautiful kinds of characters.

  

  Sally Hawkins
  • Character
  • Beautiful
  • Ugly

• An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Baby
  • Ugly
  • Nasty

• What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Hate
  • Ugly

• If equal affection cannot be, let the more loving be me.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Me
  • Equal
  • Affection

• In every commercial state, notwithstanding any pretension to equal rights, the exaltation of a few must depress the many.

  

  Adam Ferguson
  • Rights
  • Equal
  • Equal Rights

• The fictionally correct have all the answers, and that's what's wrong with them. They're artistic technocrats. There's no dilemma so knotty, no question so baffling, that it can't be smoothly neutralized by dialing up the right attitude adjustment. Poor old Hemingway. If only he'd known.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • Question
  • Attitude

• I am quite a spendthrift but just being careful because my family was not rich, was not a rich family.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Family
  • Rich
  • Careful

• He had a theory, Walt did, that the religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Imperfections don’t make something ugly.

  

  Amy Neftzger
  • Ugly
  • Make
  • Imperfections

• The networks have to answer to their sponsors. That's the difficult thing you learn.

  

  Jean Smart

• For me, being a mum has been a really, really instinctive thing.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Me
  • Being
  • Really

• What, no flirting?” I asked, trying to buy time. “Aren’t you going to at least try to be sexy? Think of all those vampire fans out there—they’d be so disappointed.” I pulled out my silver knife. Probably should have paid more attention during my knife training. “Tell you what. Let me go and I promise not to tell anyone that you aren’t suave.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Training

• There is a book into which some of us are happily led to look, and to look again, and never tire of looking. It is the Book of Man. You may open that book whenever and wherever you find another human voice to answer yours, and another human hand to take in your own.

  

  Walter Besant
  • Hand
  • Human Voice
  • Book Of Man

• It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Ugly
  • Rich
  • Poor