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Him Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he struggled for a…
- For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be had in listening…
- Might I give counsel to any man, I would say to him, try to frequent the company of your betters. In books and in life,…
- He was always thinking of his brother's soul, or of the souls of those who differed with him in opinion: it is a sort of…
- He that has ears to hear, let him stuff them with cotton.
- When [men] see a pretty woman, and feel the delicious madness of love coming over them, they always stop to calculate her temper, her money,…
- 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
- What money is better bestowed than that of a schoolboy's tip? How the kindness is recalled by the recipient in after days! It blesses him…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden