As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor? — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend? — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly… — 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
It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,… — 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
If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he… — 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
We love being in love, that's the truth on't. If we had not met Joan, we should have met Kate, and adored… — 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 there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it. — 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
If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and… — 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
![“When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money, their own money, or suitableness for the married life… Ha, ha, ha! Let us fool in this way no more. I have been in love forty-three times with all ranks and…” quote by William Makepeace Thackeray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b71/william-makepeace-thackeray-74_been-in-love_when-men-see-a-pretty-woman-and-feel-the_1904924.jpg)
