Frases de William Makepeace Thackeray

William Makepeace Thackeray , filho de Richmond Thackeray , secretário do Conselho de Receita da Companhia Britânica das Índias Orientais, e Anne Becher , cujo pai também serviu à Companhia como escritor, foi um romancista britânico de sucesso da Era Vitoriana, autor de obras renomadas como "Feira das Vaidades" , a "História de Henry Esmond" e "As Memórias de Barry Lyndon" , esta última conhecida por sua adaptação para o cinema por Stanley Kubrick, que dirigiu o filme premiado Barry Lyndon. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Julho 1811 – 24. Dezembro 1863   •   Outros nomes William Thackeray, Уильям Теккерей
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William Makepeace Thackeray Frases famosas

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William Makepeace Thackeray: Frases em inglês

“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”

Vol. II, ch. 2.
Fonte: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)

“There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.”

William Makepeace Thackeray livro The History of Henry Esmond

Bk. II, ch. 1.
The History of Henry Esmond (1852)
Fonte: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.

“This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.”

Vol. I, ch. 4. Compare: "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", Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., The Professor at the Breakfast Table; "The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women", Bernard Shaw, Epistle Dedicatory to Man and Superman.
Fonte: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)

“Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited.”

Sketches and Travels in London; Mr. Brown's Letters to His Nephew: "On Love, Marriage, Men and Women" (1856).

“Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.”

William Makepeace Thackeray livro The Virginians

Fonte: The Virginians (1857-1859), Ch. 4.

“How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy!”

William Makepeace Thackeray livro Pendennis

Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.”

Fonte: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 28.

“Thus love makes fools of all of us, big and little”

Fonte: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 4.

“Good humour may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society.”

Sketches and Travels in London; Mr. Brown's Letters to his Nephew: "On Tailoring — And Toilettes in General" (1856).
Fonte: Sketches and Travels, Etc.

“The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.”

Vol. I, ch. 2.
Vanity Fair (1847–1848)
Contexto: The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn look sourly upon you; laugh at it and with it, and it is a jolly kind companion; and so let all young persons take their choice.

“Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”

William Makepeace Thackeray livro The Luck of Barry Lyndon

The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844), Ch. 13.
Contexto: Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.

“Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?”

Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out. Vol. II, ch. 27.
Fonte: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)