Years Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray

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Thackeray’s thoughts on Years arrive in a modest batch of ten, each bearing his characteristic satirical edge. The snippets offer a brief, literary glimpse at how the Victorian novelist perceived the march of time.

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Ho, pretty page, with the dimpled chin That never has known the barber's shear, All your wish is woman to win, This…

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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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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year,…

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Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff…

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Tis hard with respect to Beauty, that its possessor should not have a life enjoyment of it, but be compelled to resign…

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As an occupation in declining years, I declare I think saving is useful, amusing and not unbecoming. It must be a perpetual…

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At certain periods of life, we live years of emotion in a few weeks, and look back on those times as on…

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To be rich, to be famous? do these profit a year hence, when other names sound louder than yours, when you lie…

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“To know nothing, or little, is in the nature of some husbands. To hide, in the nature of how many women? Oh,…

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We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are…

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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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