There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons. — 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
Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, "Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody's fine feelings may be offended. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of… — 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
At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on… — 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
Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“No, you are not worthy of the love which I have devoted to you. I knew all along that the prize I… — 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… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make… — 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
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
“As his hero and heroine pass the matrimonial barrier, the novelist generally drops the curtain, as if the drama were over then:… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“If she did not wish to lead a virtuous life, at least she desired to enjoy a character for virtue, and we… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
What is it to be a gentleman? Is it to be honest, to be gentle, to be generous, to be brave, to… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
How do men feel whose whole lives (and many men's lives are) are lies, schemes, and subterfuges? What sort of company do… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Vanity Fair--Vanity Fair! Here was a man, who could not spell, and did not care to read--who had the habits and the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Suppose you are particularly rich and well-to-do, and say on that last day, 'I am very rich; I am tolerably well known;… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“Perhaps as he was lying awake then, his life may have passed before him--his early hopeful struggles, his manly successes and prosperity,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Are not there little chapters in everybody's life, that seem to be nothing, and yet affect all the rest of the history? — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Happiest time of youth and life, when love is first spoken and returned; when the dearest eyes are daily shining welcome, and… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Tis not the dying for a faith that's so hard... 'Tis the living up to it that's difficult. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I have seen no men in life loving their profession so much as painters, except, perhaps, actors, who, when not engaged themselves,… — 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
“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
![“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/img-quotes/b71/william-makepeace-thackeray-74_been-in-love_when-men-see-a-pretty-woman-and-feel-the_1904924.jpg)
