William Makepeace Thackeray quotes - page 2

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated. View quote
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The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors. View quote
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. View quote
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Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barbers shear, All your wish is woman to win, This is the way that boys begin. Wait till you come to Forty Year. View quote
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To endure is greater than to dare to tire out hostile fortune to be daunted by no difficultyto keep heart when all have lost it to go through intrigue spotlessto forego even ambition when the end is gained who can say this is not greatness. View quote
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Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world always yields or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. View quote
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The wicked are wicked, no doubt, and they go astray and they fall, and they come by their deserts but who can tell the mischief which the very virtuous do. View quote
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Charlotte, having seen his body Borne before her on a shutter, Like a well-conducted person, Went on cutting bread and butter. View quote
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, 'Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.' View quote
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Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter Would you know how first he met her She was cutting bread and butter. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
A good laugh is sunshine in the house. View quote
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But oh, Mesdames, if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you all know the difference between trimeter and tetrameter, may all Poetry go to the deuce, and every schoolmaster perish miserably! View quote
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Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard, Master Harry - every man of every nation has done that - 'tis the living up to it that is difficult. View quote
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Them's my sentiments. View quote
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise. View quote
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. View quote
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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. View quote
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Revenge may be wicked, but it's natural. View quote
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied? View quote
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If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relation to do the business. (William Makepeace Thackeray)
In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone. View quote
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent. View quote
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Thus love makes fools of all of us, big and little. View quote
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The unambitious sluggard pretends that the eminence is not worth attaining, declines altogether the struggle, and calls himself a philosopher. I say he is a poor-spirited coward. View quote
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