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To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all. — William Makepeace Thackeray

It is to the middle-class we must look for the safety of England. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Society having ordained certain customs, men are bound to obey the law of society, and conform to its harmless orders. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Lower himself!" says the lady, with a toss of her head. "No man lowers himself by pursuing an honest calling. No man! — William Makepeace Thackeray

Long brooding over those lost pleasures exaggerates their charm and sweetness. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

We love being in love, that's the truth on't. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Malice is of the boomerang character, and is apt to turn upon the projector. — William Makepeace Thackeray

You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are! — William Makepeace Thackeray

If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Life is the soul's nursery. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things. — William Makepeace Thackeray

A good laugh is sunshine in the house. — William Makepeace Thackeray

All is vanity, nothing is fair. — William Makepeace Thackeray

You read the past in some old faces. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Those we love can but walk down to the pier with us - the voyage we must make alone. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

The stiff-backed prig, with his dandified airs and West End swagger. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Pray God, keep us simple. — William Makepeace Thackeray

When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered. — William Makepeace Thackeray

It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses. — William Makepeace Thackeray

His Scotch bear-leader, Mr Boswell, was a butt of the first quality. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Love makes fools of us all, big and little. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens. — William Makepeace Thackeray

perdition. She knew the poor tradesmen who were bankrupt by — William Makepeace Thackeray

Let us be very gentle with our neighbors' failings, and forgive our friends their debts as we hope ourselves to be forgiven. — William Makepeace Thackeray

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Every second that you're filming, you have a myriad of choices to make. — Anne Makepeace

It's a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Not only is the world informed of everything about you, but of a great deal more. — William Makepeace Thackeray

A good laugh is sunshine in a house — William Makepeace Thackeray

When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Vanity is often the unseen spur. — William Makepeace Thackeray

If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his own relations ... — William Makepeace Thackeray

Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural. — William Makepeace Thackeray

If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man. — William Makepeace Thackeray

In effective womanly beauty form is more than face, and manner more than either. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Oh, those women! They nurse and cuddle their presentiments, and make darlings of their ugliest thoughts. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you. — William Makepeace Thackeray

We have only to change the point of view and the greatest action looks mean. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I would rather make my name then inherit it. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

He who meanly admires mean things is a Snob. — William Makepeace Thackeray

It's really, really hard to watch people struggling and not want to fix it. — Anne Makepeace

Money has only a different value in the eyes of each. — William Makepeace Thackeray

How hard it is to make an Englishman acknowledge that he is happy! Pendennis. Book ii. Chap. xxxi. — William Makepeace Thackeray

An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

You, who are ashamed of your poverty, and blush for your calling, are a snob; as are you who boast of your wealth. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? — William Makepeace Thackeray

Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand. — William Makepeace Thackeray

We can't all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion. — William Makepeace Thackeray

He had not got beyond the theory as yet - the practice of life was all to come. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Mother is God in the eyes of a child. — William Makepeace Thackeray

If people only made prudent marriages, what a stop to population there would be! — William Makepeace Thackeray

It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons. — William Makepeace Thackeray

There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. — William Makepeace Thackeray

...the greatest tyrants over women are women. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Pray, dear madam, another glass; it is Christmas time, it will do you no harm. — William Makepeace Thackeray

People hate as they love, unreasonably. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I knew all along that the prize I had set my life on was not worth the winning. — William Makepeace Thackeray

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all. — William Makepeace Thackeray

When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs. — William Makepeace Thackeray

There is a skeleton in every house. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

This abattement and degradation did not take place all at once; it was brought about by degrees — William Makepeace Thackeray

Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Isidor thought for a moment he had gone mad, and that he wished his valet to cut his throat. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Mr Moss's courtyard is railed in like a cage, lest the gentlemen who are boarding with him should take a fancy to escape from his hospitality. — William Makepeace Thackeray

No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. — William Makepeace Thackeray

A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears. — William Makepeace Thackeray

An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I will bring order from chaos and light from darkness. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The ladies
Heaven bless them!
are, as a general rule, coquettes from babyhood upwards. — William Makepeace Thackeray

Women are jealous of cigars ... they regard them as a strong rival. — William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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

A woman with fair opportunities, and without an absolute hump, may marry WHOM SHE LIKES. — William Makepeace Thackeray

The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen. — William Makepeace Thackeray

In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends ... — William Makepeace Thackeray