• Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.

    William Makepeace Thackeray: Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.
    William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.221