William Makepeace Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about William Makepeace
William Makepeace Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational William Makepeace quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
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
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
— 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
Lower himself!" says the lady, with a toss of her head. "No man lowers himself by pursuing an honest calling. No man!
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.
— 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
Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for kindness, as a generous boy?
— 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
A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
All is vanity, nothing is fair.
— William Makepeace 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
Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
— 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 moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
A good laugh is sunshine in a house
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.
— 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
It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Vanity is often the unseen spur.
— 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
Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural.
— 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
Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts.
— 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
We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
I would rather make my name then inherit it.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
— 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
An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
— 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
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
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
— 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
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
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
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
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
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
An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness.
— 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