William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
When men see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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In the end, I think the majority of Romanian society will understand that if we respect environmental protection standards, if we have benefits in taxes, royalties, jobs, we should do what all the modern countries in Europe and beyond are doing to take advantage of their natural resources.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Telugu audiences love cinema. They won't let a good film down, and they've proved this with the way they accepted 'Srimanthudu.'
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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Businesses fail when they over-invest in what is at the expense of what could be.
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The first test any poem must pass is no longer, 'Is it true to nature?' but a criterion looking in a different direction: namely, 'Is it sincere? Is it genuine?'
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Teach us to give and not to count the cost.
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Even as a 10-year-old, I remember trying to explain to my mother and stepfather how upset and frustrated a messy room made me. But they just couldn't grasp it. They wanted me to be playing with baseballs and frogs while I wanted to be scouring garage sales.
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I love science fiction when it's well-done. I don't like campy stuff. I don't like stuff that's too fantastical.
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I have seen in my life, I have struggled so much. I did not get support from anyone.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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Next door to Ethiopia spreading out along the strategic Red Sea coastline is Eritrea, a relatively new country, and a place that few Americans seem to fully understand.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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Archeology and ecology can go hand in hand.
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You cannot pray them out of hell.
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In the forefront of science, there is not much difference between religion and science. People harbor beliefs. That's what happens when people believe something religiously.
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Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
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It is always difficult for a woman to be grateful for a form of chivalry that seems to be based on the premise that she is a moron.
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When men see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life.... Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and conditions of women, and would have married every time if they would have let me. How many wives had King Solomon, the wisest of men? And is not that story a warning to us that Love is master of the wisest? It is only fools who defy him.
