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Barry Lyndon
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"Barry Lyndon" Quotes

A social climber's pursuit of wealth and status leads to his ultimate downfall.

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What is the secret of a good life? A bad memory.

William Makepeace Thackeray

lifememory

Better to rule in Hell than to serve in Heaven.

William Makepeace Thackeray

powerambition

There are few greater miseries than to live alone, in the world and be poor.

William Makepeace Thackeray

lonelinesspoverty

I have always thought that if ever I found a lady who was really kind and really beautiful, I would be a fool to marry anybody else.

William Makepeace Thackeray

lovebeauty

A woman's love is like the lightning, which flashes and leaves everything dark after it.

William Makepeace Thackeray

lovebetrayal

With a woman's love, no man can do anything. It is like the sea, which calmly permits all things to float on its surface.

William Makepeace Thackeray

loveinfluence

I am not a bad fellow; neither you nor I would have been better than he, in his circumstances.

William Makepeace Thackeray

circumstancesjudgment

I have never been a very modest man; few fat men are; and Colonel Lyndon's was so prodigious, that you might have thought it not modesty, but the pride of conscious merit which caused him to refrain.

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modestypride

We are all the same in the dark.

William Makepeace Thackeray

equalitydarkness

There is no fool like an old fool.

William Makepeace Thackeray

foolishnessage