William Makepeace Thackeray frasi celebri
“Essere bella è abbastanza. Se una donna sa far bene questo, chi le domanderà di più?”
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William Makepeace Thackeray: Frasi in inglese
“He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.”
The Book of Snobs http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext01/snobs10.txt (1848), ch. 2.
Sorrows of Werther, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Sorrows of Werther, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Origine: The History of Pendennis (1848-1850), Ch. 30.
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.”
Origine: The Virginians (1857-1859), Ch. 56.
"George III"
Said by Princess Augusta to her son, George III
Four Georges (1860-1861)