The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Since the days of Adam, there has been hardly a mischief done in this world but a woman has been at the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she… — 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 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
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 Image
An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
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