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William Makepeace Thackera Quotes
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Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow it whithersoever that shall go, and are of their nature divine and immortal (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
He was always thinking of his brother’s soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of comfort which many of the serious give themselves (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
The little cares, fears, tears, timid misgivings, sleepless fancies of I don’t know how many days and nights, were forgotten under one moment’s influence of that familiar, irresistible smile (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they fall out on money matters? Everybody does it. Everybody is right, I suppose, and the world is a rogue (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
The two most engaging powers of an author are to make new things familiar, familiar things new (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
A good woman is the loveliest flower that blooms under heaven; and we look with love and wonder upon its silent grace, its pure fragrance, its delicate bloom of beauty (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on great gaps between the old life and the new (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor? (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
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 Thackera Quotes)
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
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 Thackera Quotes)
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 Thackera Quotes)
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 Thackera Quotes)
Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
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 Thackera Quotes)
A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts; but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do? (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life, that is the most wholesome society; learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what great men admire (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
If a man has committed wrong in life, I don’t know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your lies in circulation inevitably multiplies, and the danger of detection increases every day (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
If a man’s character is to be abused, say what you will, there’s nobody like a relative to do the business (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)
A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one (William Makepeace Thackera Quotes)