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William Makepeace Thackeray
Geburtstag: 18. Juli 1811
Todesdatum: 24. Dezember 1863
Andere Namen: William Thackeray, Уильям Теккерей
William Makepeace Thackeray war ein britischer Schriftsteller und gilt neben Charles Dickens und George Eliot als bedeutendster englischsprachiger Romancier des Viktorianischen Zeitalters. Wikipedia
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— William Makepeace Thackeray, Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit
Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit (Vanity fair). Aus dem Englischen von Katia Mann (1883-1980). Leipzig: List, 1967. S. 555
„Thus love makes fools of all of us, big and little“
Quelle: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 4.
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit
Quelle: Vanity Fair
„it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody“
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit
Quelle: Vanity Fair
„Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.“
Quelle: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 28.
Quelle: 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).
— William Makepeace Thackeray, buch The Luck of Barry Lyndon
The Luck of Barry Lyndon (1844).
„Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.“
— William Makepeace Thackeray, buch The Virginians
Quelle: The Virginians (1857-1859), Ch. 4.
„How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy!“
— William Makepeace Thackeray, buch Pendennis
Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
„… the greatest tyrants over women are women.“
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit
Quelle: Vanity Fair
„Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.“
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit
Quelle: Vanity Fair
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit
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.
Quelle: Vanity Fair (1847–1848)
