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title: "12 Young Quotes By William Makepeace Thackeray"
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> [Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/except-for-the-young-or-very-happy-i-can-t-say-i-am-sorry-for-anyone/)

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> [The affection of young ladies is of as rapid growth as Jack's beanstalk, and reaches up to the sky in a night.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/the-affection-of-young-ladies-is-of-as-rapid-growth-as-jack-s/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/to-see-a-young-couple-loving-each-other-is-no-wonder-but-to-see-an/)

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> [Oh, my young friends, how delightful is the beginning of a love-business, and how undignified, sometimes, the end!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/oh-my-young-friends-how-delightful-is-the-beginning-of-a-love/)

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> [Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/next-to-the-young-i-suppose-the-very-old-are-the-most-selfish/)

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> [Next to the very young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/next-to-the-very-young-i-suppose-the-very-old-are-the-most-selfish/)

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> [The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/the-world-is-a-looking-glass-and-gives-back-to-every-man-the/)

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> [Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/almost-all-women-will-give-a-sympathizing-hearing-to-men-who-are-in/)

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> [Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/next-to-the-young-i-suppose-the-very-old-are-the-most-selfish-alas/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/we-should-pay-as-much-reverence-to-youth-as-we-should-to-age-there/)

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> [Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/young-ladies-may-have-been-crossed-in-love-and-have-had-their/)

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> [To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/to-describe-love-making-is-immoral-and-immodest-you-know-it-is-to/)

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## Other authors on Young

## More by William Makepeace Thackeray

> [“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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/to-those-great-geniuses-now-in-petticoats-who-shall-write-novels-for/)

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> [When one fib becomes due as it were, you must forge another to take up the old acceptance; and so the stock of your…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/when-one-fib-becomes-due-as-it-were-you-must-forge-another-to-take-up/)

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> [Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/let-a-man-who-has-to-make-his-fortune-in-life-remember-this-maxim/)

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> [As nature made every man with a nose and eyes of his own, she gave him a character of his own, too; and yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/as-nature-made-every-man-with-a-nose-and-eyes-of-his-own-she-gave-him/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/it-is-best-to-love-wisely-no-doubt-but-to-love-foolishly-is-better/)

[William Makepeace Thackeray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-makepeace-thackeray/)

> [Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/our-great-thoughts-our-great-affections-the-truths-of-our-life-never/)

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> [Charming Alnaschar visions! it is the happy privilege of youth to construct you.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/charming-alnaschar-visions-it-is-the-happy-privilege-of-youth-to/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/to-see-a-young-couple-loving-each-other-is-no-wonder-but-to-see-an/)

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> [An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/an-immense-percentage-of-snobs-i-believe-is-to-be-found-in-every-rank/)

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> [Vanity is often the unseen spur.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/vanity-is-often-the-unseen-spur/)

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> [A good laugh is sunshine in the house.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/a-good-laugh-is-sunshine-in-the-house/)

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> [Novelty has charms that our minds can hardly withstand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/novelty-has-charms-that-our-minds-can-hardly-withstand/)

[William Makepeace Thackeray](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/william-makepeace-thackeray/)

> [“Picture to yourself, O fair young reader, a worldly, selfish, graceless, thankless, religionless old woman, writhing in pain and fear, and without her wig.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/picture-to-yourself-o-fair-young-reader-a-worldly-selfish-graceless/)

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> [Certain opuscules, denominated 'Christmas Books,' with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the exodus of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/william-makepeace-thackeray/certain-opuscules-denominated-christmas-books-with-the-ostensible/)

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                        "text": "Next to the young, I suppose the very old are the most selfish. Alas, the heart hardens as the blood ceases to run. The cold snow strikes down from the head, and checks the glow of feeling. Who wants to survive into old age after abdicating all his faculties one by one, and be sans teeth, sans eyes, sans memory, sans hope, sans sympathy?",
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                        "text": "We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.",
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                        "text": "Young ladies may have been crossed in love, and have had their sufferings, their frantic moments of grief and tears, their wakeful nights, and so forth; but it is only in very sentimental novels that people occupy themselves perpetually with that passion, and I believe what are called broken hearts are a very rare article indeed.",
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                        "text": "To describe love-making is immoral and immodest; you know it is. To describe it as it really is, or would appear to you and me as lookers-on, would be to describe the most dreary farce, to chronicle the most tautological twaddle. To take note of sighs, hand-squeezes, looks at the moon, and so forth--does this business become our dignity as historians? Come away from those foolish young people--they don't want us; and dreary as their farce is, and tautological as their twaddle, you may be sure it amuses them, and that they are happy enough without us.",
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