Frases de William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray
Data de nascimento: 18. Julho 1811
Data de falecimento: 24. Dezembro 1863
Outros nomes: William Thackeray, Уильям Теккерей
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.
Citações William Makepeace Thackeray
„Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.“
Fonte: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 28.
„A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.“
Fonte: The Memoirs of Barry Lyndon, Esq. written by himself
„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).
„The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward.“
— William Makepeace Thackeray, livro The Luck of Barry Lyndon
The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844).
„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).
„… the greatest tyrants over women are women.“
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Fonte: Vanity Fair
„Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.“
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
Fonte: Vanity Fair
„This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.“
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair
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)
„As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.“
Fonte: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 40.
