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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
We love being in love, that's the truth on't.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
— 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
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
Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
He had not got beyond the theory as yet - the practice of life was all to come.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
The wine is drawn, M. le Marquis...we must drink it.'
— William Makepeace Thackeray
Taste is something quite different from fashion, superior to fashion.
— 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
Novelty has charms that our mind can hardly withstand.
— 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
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
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
— 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
In a word, in adversity she was the best of comforters, in good fortune the most troublesome of friends ...
— William Makepeace Thackeray
The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.
— William Makepeace Thackeray
An intelligent wife can make her home, in spite of exigencies, pretty much what she pleases.
— 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
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
— 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