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title: "28 Ifs Quotes By William Makepeace Thackeray"
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> [If I mayn't tell you what I feel, what is the use of a friend?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/if-i-mayn-t-tell-you-what-i-feel-what-is-the-use-of-a-friend/)

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> [If success is rare and slow, everybody knows how quick and easy ruin is.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/if-success-is-rare-and-slow-everybody-knows-how-quick-and-easy-ruin-is/)

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> [If you had told Sycorax that her son Caliban was as handsome as Apollo, she would have been pleased, witch as she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/if-you-had-told-sycorax-that-her-son-caliban-was-as-handsome-as/)

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> [If you will fling yourself under the wheels, Juggernaut will go over you; depend upon it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/if-you-will-fling-yourself-under-the-wheels-juggernaut-will-go-over/)

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> [If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/if-there-is-no-love-more-in-yonder-heart-it-is-but-a-corpse-unburied/)

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> [If you take temptations into account, who is to say that he is better than his neighbor?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/if-you-take-temptations-into-account-who-is-to-say-that-he-is-better/)

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> [If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/if-thou-hast-never-been-a-fool-be-sure-thou-wilt-never-be-a-wise-man/)

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> [If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/if-fun-is-good-truth-is-still-better-and-love-best-of-all/)

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> [Happy! Who is happy? Was there not a serpent in Paradise itself? And if Eve had been perfectly happy beforehand, would she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/happy-who-is-happy-was-there-not-a-serpent-in-paradise-itself-and-if/)

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> [Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/sir-respect-your-dinner-idolize-it-enjoy-it-properly-you-will-be-many/)

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> [“I have long gone about with a conviction on my mind that I had a work to do—a Work, if you like,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/i-have-long-gone-about-with-a-conviction-on-my-mind-that-i-had-a-work/)

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> [I want a sofa, as I want a friend, upon which I can repose familiarly. If you can't have intimate terms and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/i-want-a-sofa-as-i-want-a-friend-upon-which-i-can-repose-familiarly/)

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> [If dying, I yet live in a tender heart or two; nor am I lost and hopeless living, if a sainted departed…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/if-dying-i-yet-live-in-a-tender-heart-or-two-nor-am-i-lost-and/)

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> [It is all very well for you, who have probably never seen any spiritual manifestations, to talk as you do; but if…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/it-is-all-very-well-for-you-who-have-probably-never-seen-any/)

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> [To our betters eve can reconcile ourselves, if you please--respecting them sincerely, laughing at their jokes, making allowance for their stupidities, meekly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/to-our-betters-eve-can-reconcile-ourselves-if-you-please-respecting/)

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> [What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/what-a-dignity-it-gives-an-old-lady-that-balance-at-the-bankers-how/)

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> [To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/to-be-rich-to-be-famous-do-these-profit-a-year-hence-when-other-names/)

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> [He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/he-first-selected-the-smallest-one-and-then-bowed-his-head-as-though/)

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> [If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/if-in-looking-at-the-lives-of-princes-courtiers-men-of-rank-and/)

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> [If love lives through all life; and survives through all sorrow; and remains steadfast with us through all changes; and in all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/if-love-lives-through-all-life-and-survives-through-all-sorrow-and/)

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> [Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/every-man-ought-to-be-in-love-a-few-times-in-his-life-and-to-have-a/)

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> [ When \[men\] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/when-men-see-a-pretty-woman-and-feel-the-delicious-madness-of-love/)

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> [We love being in love, that's the truth on't. If we had not met Joan, we should have met Kate, and adored…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/we-love-being-in-love-that-s-the-truth-on-t-if-we-had-not-met-joan-we/)

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> [Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/dare-and-the-world-always-yields-or-if-it-beats-you-sometimes-dare-it/)

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> [As if the ray which travels from the sun would reach me sooner than the man who blacks my boots.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/as-if-the-ray-which-travels-from-the-sun-would-reach-me-sooner-than/)

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> [Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/choose-a-good-disagreeable-friend-if-you-be-wise-a-surly-steady/)

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> [To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don't want a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/to-be-beautiful-is-enough-if-a-woman-can-do-that-well-who-should/)

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> [If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/if-fathers-are-sometimes-sulky-at-the-appearance-of-the-destined-son/)

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## Other authors on Ifs

## More by William Makepeace Thackeray

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/to-those-great-geniuses-now-in-petticoats-who-shall-write-novels-for/)

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> [When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/when-one-fib-becomes-due-as-it-were-you-must-forge-another-to-take-up/)

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> [Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/let-a-man-who-has-to-make-his-fortune-in-life-remember-this-maxim/)

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> [As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/as-nature-made-every-man-with-a-nose-and-eyes-of-his-own-she-gave-him/)

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> [It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/it-is-best-to-love-wisely-no-doubt-but-to-love-foolishly-is-better/)

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> [Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/diffidence-is-a-sort-of-false-modesty/)

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> [Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/our-great-thoughts-our-great-affections-the-truths-of-our-life-never/)

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> [Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/charming-alnaschar-visions-it-is-the-happy-privilege-of-youth-to/)

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> [To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/to-see-a-young-couple-loving-each-other-is-no-wonder-but-to-see-an/)

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> [An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/an-immense-percentage-of-snobs-i-believe-is-to-be-found-in-every-rank/)

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> [Vanity is often the unseen spur.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/vanity-is-often-the-unseen-spur/)

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> [A good laugh is sunshine in the house.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/a-good-laugh-is-sunshine-in-the-house/)

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> [Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/novelty-has-charms-that-our-minds-can-hardly-withstand/)

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> [“Picture to yourself, O fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing in pain and fear, and without her wig.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/picture-to-yourself-o-fair-young-reader-a-worldly-selfish-graceless/)

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> [Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/certain-opuscules-denominated-christmas-books-with-the-ostensible/)

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