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William Makepeace Thackeray
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When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
William Makepeace Thackeray
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
William Makepeace Thackeray
'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
William Makepeace Thackeray
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.
William Makepeace Thackeray
I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
William Makepeace Thackeray
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Dinner was made for eating, not for talking.
William Makepeace Thackeray
It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace Thackeray
I would rather make my name than inherit it.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
William Makepeace Thackeray
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
William Makepeace Thackeray
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
William Makepeace Thackeray
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace Thackeray
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
William Makepeace Thackeray
If a secret history of books could be written, and the author's private thoughts and meanings noted down alongside of his story, how many insipid volumes would become interesting, and dull tales excite the reader!
William Makepeace Thackeray
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
William Makepeace Thackeray
It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
William Makepeace Thackeray
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him that gives and him that takes.
William Makepeace Thackeray
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
William Makepeace Thackeray
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
William Makepeace Thackeray
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
William Makepeace Thackeray
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
William Makepeace Thackeray
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit.
William Makepeace Thackeray
An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
William Makepeace Thackeray
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose is the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
William Makepeace Thackeray
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up the pen to write.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
William Makepeace Thackeray
He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Malice is of the boomerang character and is apt to turn upon the projector.
William Makepeace Thackeray
A clever ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies but a handsome fool is irresistible.
William Makepeace Thackeray
The death of a child occasions a passion of grief and frantic tears such as your end brother reader will never inspire.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Oh my young friends how delightful is the beginning of a love business and how undignified sometimes the end
William Makepeace Thackeray
As the gambler said of his dice to love and win is the best thing to love and lose is the next best.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Dinners are given mostly in the middle classes by way of revenge.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word
William Makepeace Thackeray
it is the ordinary lot of people to have no friends if they themselves care for nobody.
William Makepeace Thackeray