At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff… — 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
“To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year,… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Which of us that is thirty years old has not had its Pompeii? Deep under ashes lies the life of youth--the careless… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign… — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are… — 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
