Bk. II, ch. 1.
The History of Henry Esmond (1852)
Source: The History of Henry Esmond, Esq.
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“Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.”
Vol. II, ch. 2.
Source: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)
“Thus love makes fools of all of us, big and little”
Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 4.
“Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.”
Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 28.
Source: 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).
“Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.”
Source: The Virginians (1857-1859), Ch. 4.
“How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy!”
Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“… the greatest tyrants over women are women.”
Source: Vanity Fair
“Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.”
Source: 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.
Source: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)
Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 40.
“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).
Source: 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)
Context: 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.