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Sure, love vincit omnia; is i...

Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who knows not that: he hath not felt the highest faculty of the soul who hath not enjoyed it.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

To describe love-making is im...

To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me as lookers-on, would be to describe the most dreary farce, to chronicle the most tautological twaddle. To take note of sighs, hand-squeezes, looks at the moon, and so forth--does this business become our dignity as historians? Come away from those foolish young people--they don't want us; and dreary as their farce is, and tautological as their twaddle, you may be sure it amuses them, and that they are happy enough without us.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Next to eating good dinners, ...

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 332 quotes

Vanity Fair is a very vain, w...

Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

We are most of us very lonely...

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 332 quotes

The world is full of love and...

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which ...

Ah! Vanitas Vanitatum! Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?-Come, children, let us shut up the box and the puppets, for our play is played out.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

A pair of bright eyes with a ...

A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess 'em.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

As an occupation in declining...

As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual amusement. It is a game that can be played by day, by night, at home and abroad, and at which you must win in the long run. . . . What an interest it imparts to life!.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

As fits the holy Christmas bi...

As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle will.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Choose a good disagreeable fr...

Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

It is an awful thing to get a...

It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute's delay or advance.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

The Pall Mall Gazette is writ...

The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Love seems to survive life, a...

Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

It's a great comfort to some ...

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

The moral world has no partic...

The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

I set it down as a maxim, tha...

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 332 quotes

We know that Heaven chastens ...

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

A lady who sets her heart upo...

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 Thackeray 332 quotes

Never marry with the expectat...

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

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