Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Fairy roses, fairy rings, turn out sometimes troublesome things. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
if you are not allowed to touch the heart sometimes in spite of syntax, and are not to be loved until you… — 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
Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
If fathers are sometimes sulky at the appearance of the destined son-in-law, is it not a fact that mothers become sentimental and,… — 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
