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
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
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
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
If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Sure, love vincit omnia; is immeasurably above all ambition, more precious than wealth, more noble than name. He knows not life who… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
We are most of us very lonely in this world; you who have any who love you, cling to them and thank… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end! — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Forgotten tones of love recur to us, and kind glances shine out of the past--oh so bright and clear!--oh so longed after!--because… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
She lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all!… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends… — 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
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
Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we… — 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
Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter; Would you know how first he met her? She was… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“We are Turks with the affections of our women; and have made them subscribe to our doctrine too. We let their bodies… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“..the dark walks, so favourable to the interviews of young lovers” — 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