Kvinnens hjerte er som en runestein. Det som en gang er hugget inn i det, kan ikke slettes ut.
The Memoirs of Mr. Charles J. Yellowplush (1856).
A woman’s heart is just like a lithographer’s stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.
I think this womans heart was like one of them lithograffic stones, you CANT RUB OUT ANY THING when once its drawn or wrote on it; nor could you out of her ladyships stone - heart, I mean — in the shape of an affront, a slight, or real, or phansied injury.
Nasjonalitet: britisk
Tittel: forfatter
Levde: 1811 - 1863
Thackeray skrev en rekke ironiske fortellinger, muntre parodier og bitende samfunnssatirer. Mest kjent er han for det satiriske verket, Vanity Fair, utgitt i 1947-48.