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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone. — 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
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
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
“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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