Frases de William M. Thackeray

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

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

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

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

“Wikipedia tiene un artículo sobre William Thackeray.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“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.”

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

“George, be a King!”

“Them's my sentiments.”