Pleasure Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

10 Pleasure quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

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Thackeray’s sharp eye for society lands ten succinct remarks on pleasure, mixing satire with genuine curiosity. The brevity lets his characteristic humor stand out without drowning the reader.

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The true pleasure of life is to live with your inferiors.

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Business first; pleasure afterwards.

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Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless…

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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of…

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Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow…

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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of…

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Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books…

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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be…

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If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate,…

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Which, I wonder, brother reader, is the better lot, to die prosperous and famous, or poor and disappointed? To have, and to…

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

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Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.

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Our great thoughts, our great affections, the truths of our life, never leave us. Surely they can not separate from our consciousness, shall follow…

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Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.

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

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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.

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Vanity is often the unseen spur.

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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.

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Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.

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“Picture to yourself, O fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing in pain and fear, and without her wig.…

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