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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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„Man weiß, wie es ist, wenn eine Frau eine andere tyrannisiert. Alle Qualen, die ein Mann auszuhalten hat, sind nichts im Vergleich mit den Stichelreden und Grausamkeiten, die arme Frauen von tyrannischen Geschlechtsgenossinnen sich gefallen lassen müssen - Tag für Tag bohren sie sich ihnen wie spitze Pfeile in die Seele, den armen Opfern.“
— William Makepeace Thackeray, Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit
Jahrmarkt der Eitelkeit (Vanity fair). Aus dem Englischen von Katia Mann (1883-1980). Leipzig: List, 1967. S. 555
„The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.“
— 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.
„A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.“
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).
„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.“
— 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
„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, 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)
„As the gambler said of his dice, to love and win is the best thing, to love and lose is the next best.“
Quelle: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 40.
