An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
William Makepeace ThackerayTitles are abolished; and the American Republic swarms with men claiming and bearing them.
William Makepeace ThackerayWerther 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 ThackerayYoung ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.
William Makepeace Thackeray