William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
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History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.
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Nothing earth-shattering has happened in men's fashion. How much can you do with men's clothes?
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If you can make a character likable that's not very nice, that's the challenge of the job.
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
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I think as women, the smarter and more powerful we are, the more it can be threatening and alienating to other people, more than with men. That's something we need to support each other with.
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The analysis of character is the highest human entertainment.
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I had to write something and couldn't think of a plot, so I decided to write a Cinderella story because it already had a plot! Then, when I thought about Cinderella's character, I realized that she was too much of a goody-two-shoes for me, and I would hate her before I finished ten pages.
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Is woman a religion? Well, perhaps you will have the chance of judging for yourselves if you go to America. There you will find men treating women with just the same respect formerly accorded only to religious dignitaries or to great nobles.
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I played a character in 'Ransom' who was as evil as they come.
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If men were born free, they would, so long as they remained free, form no conception of good and evil.
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It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.
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Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.
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Character is always known. Thefts never enrich; alms never impoverish; murder will speak out of stone walls.
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It's successful, middle-class Arab men and women, professionals with seemingly happy family lives, who are prepared to go to paradise for a greater cause. That's terrifying.
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I find men terribly exciting, and any girl who says she doesn't is an anemic old maid, a streetwalker, or a saint.
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I am not a hero but the brave men who died deserved this honor.
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
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We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread.
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When you play a character, you get to see the world through their eyes. Whether it's a fictional world or a real world, you do get to see somebody else's point of view, whether he's a good guy or a bad guy.
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Boys are more likely than girls to look at the cost-benefit tradeoff of going to college. The imbalance of far more women than men at colleges has been a factor in the various sex scandals that have made news in the last couple of years.
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The German government has taken energetic measures against the propagation of the defective, the mentally diseased, and the criminal. The ideal solution would be the suppression of each of these individuals as soon as he has proven himself to be dangerous.
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I am convinced that not only do children need children's books to fine-tune their brains, but our civilization needs them if we are not going to unplug ourselves from our collective past.
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The American people are not just being taxed to death; they're being taxed after death. But, no one should have to sell the life's work of a parent or a loved one just to pay the federal government.
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If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
