Frases de William M. Thackeray página 3

“El mundo es amigable para las personas que también lo son.”

Sin fuentes

“El humor es una de las mejores prendas que se pueden vestir en sociedad.”

Sin fuentes

“La desesperación es perfectamente compatible con una buena cena, se los aseguro.”

Sin fuentes

“Una persona malvada es como una ventana sucia, nunca deja pasar el brillo.”

Sin fuentes

“Wikipedia tiene un artículo sobre William Thackeray.”

Sin fuentes

“La vida es un espejo: si le frunces el ceño, esta te lo fruncirá de regreso; si sonríes, te devolverá el saludo.”

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“He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.”

William M. Thackeray: Frases en inglés

“Werther had a love for Charlotte
Such as words could never utter;
Would you know how first he met her?
She was cutting bread and butter.”

The Book of Snobs http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/snobs10.txt (1848), ch. 2.

“Charlotte, having seen his body
Borne before her on a shutter,
Like a well-conducted person,
Went on cutting bread and butter.”

Sorrows of Werther, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Of the Corporation of the Goosequill — of the Press, my boy, … of the fourth estate … There she is — the great engine — she never sleeps. She has her ambassadors in every quarter of the world — her couriers upon every road. Her officers march along with armies, and her envoys walk into statesmen's cabinets. They are ubiquitous.”

Sorrows of Werther, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.”

Fuente: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 30.

“Although I enter not,
Yet round about the spot
Ofttimes I hover;
And near the sacred gate
With longing eyes I wait,
Expectant of her.”

William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

Vol. I, ch. 13.
Vanity Fair (1847–1848)

“I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.”

William Makepeace Thackeray libro Pendennis

Pendennis: At the Church Gate, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The History of Pendennis (1848-1850)

William Makepeace Thackeray libro The Virginians

Fuente: The Virginians (1857-1859), Ch. 56.

“George, be a King!”

"George III"
Said by Princess Augusta to her son, George III
Four Georges (1860-1861)

“Them's my sentiments.”