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“He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.”

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Book of Snobs http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/snobs10.txt (1848), ch. 2.

“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.”

William Makepeace Thackeray

Sorrows of Werther, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Charlotte, having seen his body
Borne before her on a shutter,
Like a well-conducted person,
Went on cutting bread and butter.”

William Makepeace Thackeray

Sorrows of Werther, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“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.”

William Makepeace Thackeray

Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 30.

“Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.”

William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

Vol. I, ch. 13.
Vanity Fair (1847–1848)

“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.”

William Makepeace Thackeray book Pendennis

Pendennis: At the Church Gate, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
The History of Pendennis (1848-1850)

“I never know whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.”

William Makepeace Thackeray book The Virginians

Source: The Virginians (1857-1859), Ch. 56.

“George, be a King!”

William Makepeace Thackeray

"George III"
Said by Princess Augusta to her son, George III
Four Georges (1860-1861)

“Them's my sentiments.”

William Makepeace Thackeray Vanity Fair

Vol. I, ch. 21.
Vanity Fair (1847–1848)