Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with proud stomachs. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them.” — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Who feels injustice, who shrinks before a slight, who has a sense of wrong so acute, and so glowing a gratitude for… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
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
Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind? — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days!… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Every man, however brief or inglorious may have been his academical career, must remember with kindness and tenderness the old university comrades… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“he began to feel that she was very lonely indeed. “If he’d been here,” she said, “those cowards would never have dared… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Benevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions. — 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
Never lose a chance of saying a kind word. As Collingwood never saw a vacant place in his estate but he took… — 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
