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“Here’s a 165-year old but still fitting comment on public officials who are so sure they’re right that they’ll drive over a cliff rather than compromise: “Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt – are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: a Novel without a Hero (1848).The author’s middle name really was “Makepeace.” As the quote shows, he disliked those who would not.”
William Makepeace Thackeray“Here’s a 165-year old but still fitting comment on public officials who are so sure they’re right that they’ll drive over a cliff rather than compromise: “Always to be right, always to trample forward, and never to doubt – are not these the great qualities with which dullness takes the lead in the world?” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair: a Novel without a Hero (1848).The author’s middle name really was “Makepeace.” As the quote shows, he disliked those who would not.”
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair“If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we know that no lady in the genteel world can possess this desideratum, until she has put on a train and feathers and has been presented to her Sovereign at Court. From that august interview they come out stamped as honest women. The Lord Chamberlain gives them a certificate of virtue.”
William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair“It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.”
William Makepeace Thackeray“When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.”
William Makepeace Thackeray“When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.”
William Makepeace Thackeray“Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.”
William Makepeace Thackeray“A good laugh is sunshine in the house.”
William Makepeace Thackeray“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
William Makepeace Thackeray“It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.”
William Makepeace Thackeray“Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
William Makepeace Thackeray