Frases de William Makepeace Thackeray

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“É difícil para uma pessoa carregar com o sucesso; mas para os que lhe estão próximo ainda é mais difícil.”

“Mãe é o nome de Deus nos lábios e corações das crianças pequenas.”

“Desde Adão que não existe erro em que a mulher não tenha participado de qualquer forma.”

“O verdadeiro prazer da vida é viver com gente que nos seja inferior.”

“Como o jogador disse dos seus dados, amar e ganhar é a melhor coisa, amar e perder é a segunda melhor.”

“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.”