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William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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)
Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she have listened to the tempter? (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Women equitable, logical, and utterly just! Mercy upon us! If they were, population would cease, the world would be a howling wilderness (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
Let us people who are so uncommonly clever and learned have a great tenderness and pity for the poor folks who are not endowed with the prodigious talents which we have (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
The world is full of love and pity. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Stupid people, who do not know how to laugh, are always pompous and self-conceited; that is, ungentle, uncharitable, unchristian (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can’t have intimate terms and freedom with one and the other, they are of no good (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son in law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and, as it were, love their own loves over again (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
He who meanly admires a mean thing is a snob - perhaps that is a safe definition of the character (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
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 Quotes)
He fought a thousand glorious wars, and more than half the world was his, and somewhere, now, in yonder stars, can tell, mayhap, what greatness is (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Ah! Gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
Keats spoke for all time when he said, a thing of beauty is a joy forever (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
Know ye the willow tree, whose grey leaves quiver, whispering gloomily to yon pale river? Lady at even tide wander not near it: they say its branches hide a sad, lost spirit! (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
A snob is that man or woman who is always pretending to be something better - especially richer or more fashionable - than he is (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
The tallest and the smallest among us are so alike diminutive and pitifully base, it is a meanness to calculate the difference (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
We may deserve grief; but why should women be unhappy? - except that we know heaven chastens those whom it loves best, being pleased by repeated trials to make these pure spirits more pure (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
How can you make a fool perceive that he is a fool? Such a personage can no more see his own folly than be can see his own ears (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong tomorrow (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
And lo! In a flash of crimson splendor, with blazing scarlet clouds running before his chariot, and heralding his majestic approach, God’s sun rises upon the world (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
You, who forget your own friends, meanly to follow after those of a higher degree, are a snob (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
It is from the level of calamities, not that of everyday life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)
I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social (William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes)