Quote#Sadness
Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their…
Quote byWilliam Makepeace Thackeray · 1811–1863
Commonly attributed — not confirmed in an authoritative edition. Cited on Wikiquote to: The Newcomes (1854–1855), Ch. 32..
English (original)
Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion; and, I believe, what are called broken hearts are very rare articles indeed.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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