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Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
The History of Pendennis (1848)
Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
The Virginians (1857)
Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.
The Virginians (1857)
Who does not believe his first passion eternal?
The Virginians (1857)
We are most of us very lonely in the world. You who have any who love you, cling to them, and thank God.
Lovel the Widower (1860)
The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.
The Adventures of Philip (1862)
And one man is as good as another—and a great dale betther, as the Irish philosopher said.
Let us be very gentle with our neighbours' failings; and forgive our friends their debts, as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.
Sketches and Travels in London (1847)
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
The History of Pendennis (1848)
This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.
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.
The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844)
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
The Virginians (1857)
Time passes—Time the consoler—Time the anodyne—Time the grey calm satirist, whose sad smile seems to say, Look, O man, at the vanity of the objects you pursue, and of yourself who pursue them!
Sketches and Travels in London (1847)
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
The Newcomes (1854)
The thorn in the cushion of the editorial chair.
Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?
'Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have even a life-enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign it after, at the most, some forty years' lease.
The Virginians (1857)
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.
The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844)
Yes, I am a fatal man, Madame Fribsbi. To inspire hopeless passion is my destiny.
The History of Pendennis (1848)
Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our Cushion.
Roundabout Papers (1863)