| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| NUMBER: | 7005 |
| AUTHOR: | William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863) |
| QUOTATION: | This I set down as a positive truth. A woman with fair opportunities and without a positive hump, may marry whom she likes. 1 |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Vanity Fair. Chap. iv. |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia. |
| WORKS: | William Makepeace Thackeray Collection. |
| Note 1. O. W. Holmes: The Professor at the Breakfast Table: 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. Bernard Shaw: Epistle Dedicatory to Man and Superman: The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women. [back] |
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