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Frequent the company of your b...

Frequent the company of your betters.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

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

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

Benevolence and feeling ennobl...

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

If you will fling yourself und...

If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Charming Alnaschar visions! it...

Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

The death of a child occasions...

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 332 quotes

Who feels injustice, who shrin...

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 332 quotes

I want a sofa, as I want a fri...

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 332 quotes

The ladies--Heaven bless them!...

The ladies--Heaven bless them!--are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Every man ought to be in love ...

Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

If fathers are sometimes sulky...

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 332 quotes

When a mother, as fond mothers...

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 332 quotes

That acknowledgment of weaknes...

That acknowledgment of weakness which we make in imploring to be relieved from hunger and from temptation is surely wisely put in our daily prayer. Think of it, you who are rich, and take heed how you turn a beggar away.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

There are other books in a man...

There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever--the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Diffidence is a sort of false ...

Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Young ladies may have been cro...

Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

To our betters eve can reconci...

To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly suffering their insolence; but we can't pardon our equals going beyond us.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

If you had told Sycorax that h...

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 332 quotes

A gentleman, is a rarer thing ...

A gentleman, is a rarer thing than some of us think for. Which of us can point out many such in his circle--men whose aims are generous, whose truth is constant and elevated; who can look the world honestly in the face, with an equal manly sympathy for the great and the small? We all know a hundred whose coats are well made, and a score who have excellent manners; but of gentlemen how many? Let us take a little scrap of paper, and each make out his list.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

There is no man that can teach...

There is no man that can teach us to be gentlemen better than Joseph Addison.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

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