John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| William Makepeace Thackeray. (1811–1863) (continued) |
| 7000 |
| Remember, it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman. |
| Pendennis. Book i. Chap. xxviii. |
| 7001 |
| How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! |
| Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi. |
| 7002 |
| ’T is strange what a man may do and a woman yet think him an angel. |
| Henry Esmond. Book i. Chap. vii. |
| 7003 |
| The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors. |
| The Newcomes. Book i. Chap. i. |
| 7004 |
| The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do? |
| The Newcomes. Book i. Chap. xx. |
| 7005 |
| This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes. 1 |
| Vanity Fair. Chap. iv. |
| 7006 |
| Bravery never goes out of fashion. |
| The Four Georges. |
| Horace Greeley. (1811–1872) |
| 7007 |
| The illusion that times that were are better than those that are, has probably pervaded all ages. |
| The American Conflict. |
| 7008 |
| A widow of doubtful age will marry almost any sort of a white man. |
| Letter to Dr. Rufus Wilmot Griswold. |
| 7009 |
| The masses of our countrymen, North and South, are eager to clasp hands across the bloody chasm which has so long divided them. |
| Acceptance of Liberal Republican Nomination as President. May 29, 1872. |
| Note 1. O. W. Holmes: The Professor at the Breakfast Table: I should like to see any kind of a man, distinguishable from a gorilla, that some good and even pretty woman could not shape a husband out of. Bernard Shaw: Epistle Dedicatory to Man and Superman: The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. [back] |