“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
“And as a general rule, which may make all creditors who are inclined to be severe pretty comfortable in their minds, no… — 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
To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie… — 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
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
Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Remember, it's as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
“To part with money is a sacrifice beyond almost all men endowed with a sense of order. There is scarcely any man… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,… — 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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