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William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The pressure of a tender hand nerves a man for an operation, and cheers him for the dreadful interview with the surgeon (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
Perhaps there is no greater test of a man’s regularity and easiness of conscience than his readiness to face the postman. Blessed is he who is made happy by the sound of a rat-tat! The good are eager for it; but the naughty tremble at the sound thereof (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
Our measure of rewards and punishments is most partial and incomplete, absurdly inadequate, utterly worldly; and we wish to continue it into the next world. Into that next and awful world we strive to pursue men, and send after them our impotent paltry verdicts of condemnation or acquittal. We set up our paltry little rod to measure heaven immeasurable (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation of others, and a modest opinion of self. (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing. (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if you had seen what I have witnessed you would hold a different opinion. (William Makepeace Thackeray 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 Thackeray 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 Thackeray Quotes)
Good humor may be said to be one of the very best articles of dress one can wear in society (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
It was in the reign of George II. that the above-named personages lived and quarrelled ; good or bad, handsome or ugly, rich or poor, they are all equal now (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
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 Quotes)
If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she was. (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
It is impossible, in our condition of society, not to be sometimes a snob (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
He who meanly admires mean things is a snob (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
Stupid people, people who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
Them’s my sentiments (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
I think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
How to live well on nothing a year (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
The best of women are hypocrites (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
Alas! we are the sport of destiny (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
You read the past in some old faces (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
Who does not believe his first passion eternal? (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)