Love Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

There is a skeleton in every house.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

True love is better than glory.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The best of women are hypocrites.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Humor is wit and love.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Love makes fools of us all, big and little.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Alas! we are the sport of destiny.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

People hate as they love, unreasonably.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“..the dark walks, so favourable to the interviews of young lovers”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

If fun is good, truth is still better, and love best of all.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

We love being in love, that's the truth on't.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“It is those who injure women who get the most kindness from them.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The Pall Mall Gazette is written by gentlemen for gentlemen.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

Women like not only to conquer, but to be conquered.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

To see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!

— William Makepeace Thackeray

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“Here is a minute. It may be my love is dead, but here is a minute to kneel over the grave and…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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

“his first and only love, whom he had adored ever since when? – ever since yesterday, ever since for ever.”

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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

“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

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

She lived in her past life — every letter seemed to recall some circumstance of it. How well she remembered them all!…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Those who are gone, you have. Those who departed loving you, love you still; and you love them always. They are not…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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

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

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

To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

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

Where is truth, forsooth, and who knoweth it? Is Beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so? Does…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

“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

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

We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make . . . pure spirits more pure.

— William Makepeace Thackeray

It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at…

— William Makepeace Thackeray