{"author":"William Makepeace Thackeray","author_id":"William+Makepeace+Thackeray","total_quotes":60,"quotes":[{"text":"Let me whisper my belief, entre nous, that of those eminent philosophers who cry out against parsons the loudest, there are not many who have got their knowledge of the church by going thither often.","author":"William Makepeace Thackeray","tags":["atheism","social-media"],"id":5779,"author_id":"William+Makepeace+Thackeray"},{"text":"She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.","author":"William Makepeace Thackeray","tags":["alcohol","women"],"id":16742,"author_id":"William+Makepeace+Thackeray"},{"text":"It is from the level of calamities ... That we learn impressive and useful lessons.","author":"William Makepeace Thackeray","tags":["adversity"],"id":35684,"author_id":"William+Makepeace+Thackeray"},{"text":"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.","author":"William Makepeace Thackeray","tags":["children","god","mother "],"id":46569,"author_id":"William+Makepeace+Thackeray"},{"text":"He began to feel that she was very lonely indeed. “If he’d been here,” she said, “those cowards would never have dared to insult me.” She thought about “him” with great sadness and perhaps longing--about his honest, stupid, constant kindness and fidelity; his never-ceasing obedience; his good humour; his bravery and courage. Very likely she cried, for she was particularly lively, and had put on a little extra rouge, when she came down to dinner.","author":"William Makepeace Thackeray","tags":["heartache","lonely","vanity-fair"],"id":63999,"author_id":"William+Makepeace+Thackeray"},{"text":"Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of children.","author":"William Makepeace Thackeray","tags":["parenthood"],"id":65065,"author_id":"William+Makepeace+Thackeray"},{"text":"Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.","author":"William Makepeace Thackeray","tags":["love","relationships"],"id":68156,"author_id":"William+Makepeace+Thackeray"},{"text":"The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.","author":"William Makepeace Thackeray","tags":["bigotry","dishonesty","double-standards","morality","vice"],"id":85500,"author_id":"William+Makepeace+Thackeray"},{"text":"When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.","author":"William Makepeace Thackeray","tags":["flower","walk","you "],"id":87196,"author_id":"William+Makepeace+Thackeray"},{"text":"Mark to yourself the gradual way in which you have been prepared for, and are now led by an irresistible necessity to enter upon your great labour.","author":"William Makepeace Thackeray","tags":["destiny","providence","writers","writing"],"id":103644,"author_id":"William+Makepeace+Thackeray"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":60,"pages":6,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}