In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
A woman's heart is just like a lithographer's stone; what is once written upon it cannot be rubbed out. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When a mother, as fond mothers will; vows that she knows every thought in her daughter's heart, I think she pretends to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
What woman, however old, has not the bridal-favours and raiment stowed away, and packed in lavender, in the inmost cupboards of her… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
She lived in her past life- these relics and remembrances of dead affection were all that was left her in the world. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever.… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
What, indeed, does not that word "cheerfulness" imply? It means a contented spirit, it means a pure heart, it means a kind… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
How grateful are we--how touched a frank and generous heart is for a kind word extended to us in our pain! The… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Tis misfortune that awakens ingenuity, or fortitude, or endurance, in hearts where these qualities had never come to life but for the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
What will a man not do when frantic with love? To what baseness will he not demean himself? What pangs will he… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“I wonder is it because men are cowards in heart that they admire bravery so much, and place military valour so far… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Cheerfulness means a contented spirit, a pure heart, a kind and loving disposition; it means humility and ~ charity, a generous appreciation… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“To those great geniuses now in petticoats, who shall write novels for the beloved reader's children, these men and things will be as much… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
“Picture to yourself, O fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing in pain and fear, and without her wig.… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share
![“It seems to me one cannot sit down in that place [the Round Reading room of the British Museum] without a heart full of grateful reverence. I own to have said my grace at the table, and to have thanked Heaven for my English birthright, freely to partake of these beautiful books, and speak the…” quote by William Makepeace Thackeray](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/21d/william-makepeace-thackeray-74_beautiful_it-seems-to-me-one-cannot-sit-down-in-th_291707.jpg)
