More from William Makepeace Thackeray

  1. Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited.
  2. Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
  3. Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.
  4. The play is done; the curtain drops, Slow falling to the prompter's bell A moment yet the actor stops And looks around to say farewell. It …
  5. She looks so haughty that I should have thought her a princess at the very least, with a pedigree reaching as far back as the Deluge. But t…
  6. Christmas is here: Winds whistle shrill, Icy and chill. Little care we; Little we fear Weather without, Sheltered about The Mahogany Tree.
  7. This Bouillabaisse a noble dish is- A sort of soup or broth, or brew, Or hotchpotch of all sorts of fishes, That Greenwich never could outd…
  8. 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.

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