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Out of the fictitious book I ...

Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Never marry with the expectat...

Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Life is a mirror: if you frow...

Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

The great moments of life are...

The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lip,s though they cannot speak.

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

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

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

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

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

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

What a charming reconciler an...

What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Next to the young, I suppose ...

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

When I walk with you I feel a...

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

People who do not know how to...

People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Except for the young or very ...

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

The book of female logic is b...

The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Almost all women have hearts ...

Almost all women have hearts full of pity.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

When I say that I know women,...

When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don't know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Who was the blundering idiot ...

Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

Dare and the world always yie...

Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.

William Makepeace Thackeray 332 quotes

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