Quote#Desire
Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin
Quote byWilliam Makepeace Thackeray · 1811–1863
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: Ballads (1855), "The Age of Wisdom", st. 1..
English (original)
Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin, That never has known the barber’s shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin,— Wait till you come to Forty Year.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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