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
We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure. — 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
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
If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all. — 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
“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
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