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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
One tires of a page of which every sentence sparkles with points, of a sentimentalist who is always pumping the tears from his eyes or your own.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
We love being in love, that's the truth on't.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
— William Makepeace Thackeray
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Life is the soul's nursery.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
I feel Mahatma Gandhi's non-violence was for the intelligent, educated British.It was not for those who don't understand this language.
— Raj Thackeray
You read the past in some old faces.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
The stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Pray God, keep us simple.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
perdition. She knew the poor tradesmen who were bankrupt by
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
People hand over the power to you withimmense faith. It's your job to ensure tough implementation of laws.
— Raj Thackeray
I like Mr. Dickens' books much better than yours, Papa. Said one of Thackeray's daughters.
— David Markson
She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank God.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
A good laugh is sunshine in a house
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history?
— William Makepeace Thackeray
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Who knows but we may count among our intellectual chickensLike them an Earl of Thackeray and p'raps a Duke of
Dickens — W.S. Gilbert
If you give a man a fish, he is hungry again in an hour. If you teach him to catch a fish, you do him a good turn.
— Anne Isabella Thackeray Ritchie
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Women only know how to wound so. There is a poison on the tips of their little shafts, which stings a thousand times more than a man's blunter weapon.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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 Thackeray
...to be skillful in domestic duties was surely one of the most charming of woman's qualities.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
The play is done; the curtain drops,Slow falling to the prompter's bell
A moment yet the actor stops
And looks around to say farewell. — William Makepeace Thackeray
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 Thackeray
What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard ... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
and white wrappers, and this only changed in the 1860s. But Uncle Allan is quite taken with Dickens's and Thackeray's
— Sandra Schwab
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
He had not got beyond the theory as yet - the practice of life was all to come.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Mother is God in the eyes of a child.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be!
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
...the greatest tyrants over women are women.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
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 Thackeray
If you go to France, you have to speakFrench. If you speak in English, no one looks at you. On the one hand we sayEnglish is a global language.
— Raj Thackeray
Oh, brother wearers of motley, are there not moments when one grows sick of grinning and trembling and the jingling of cap and bells?
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
This abattement and degradation did not take place all at once; it was brought about by degrees
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
— William Makepeace Thackeray
A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something betterespecially richer or more fashionable
than he is. — William Makepeace Thackeray
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Isidor thought for a moment he had gone mad, and that he wished his valet to cut his throat.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
There is a skeleton in every house.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
The ladiesHeaven bless them!
are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Women are jealous of cigars ... they regard them as a strong rival.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to know a great deal too much.
— 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
A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends ...
— William Makepeace Thackeray
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
— William Makepeace Thackeray