William Makepeace Thackeray: Woman

William Makepeace Thackeray was novelist. Explore interesting quotes on woman.

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“This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities, and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes.”

William Makepeace Thackeray 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)

“Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.”

William Makepeace Thackeray

Source: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 28.

“Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.”

William Makepeace Thackeray book The History of Henry Esmond

Bk. I, ch. 7.
The History of Henry Esmond (1852)

“Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin
That never has known the barber’s shear,
All your wish is woman to win,
This is the way that boys begin.
Wait till you come to Forty Year.”

William Makepeace Thackeray

The Age of Wisdom, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Then sing as Martin Luther sang,
As Doctor Martin Luther sang,
“Who loves not wine, woman and song,
He is a fool his whole life long.””

William Makepeace Thackeray

A Credo, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).