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Men Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
- Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
- Nature has written a letter of credit upon some men's faces that is honored wherever presented. You cannot help trusting such men. Their very presence…
- 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,…
- Who has not remarked the readiness with which the closest of friends and honestest of men suspect and accuse each other of cheating when they…
- Learn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely,…
- As fits the holy Christmas birth, Be this, good friends, our carol still Be peace on earth, be peace on earth, To men of gentle…
- [As they say in the old legends]Before a man goes to the devil himself, he sends plenty of other souls thither.
- If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we…
- Novels are sweets. All people with healthy literary appetites love them-almost all women; a vast number of clever, hardheaded men.
- If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
- When a man is in love with one woman in a family, it is astonishing how fond he becomes of every person connected with it.
- For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and…
- I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.
- 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,…
- Almost all women will give a sympathizing hearing to men who are in love. Be they ever so old, they grow young again with that…
- A clever, ugly man every now and then is successful with the ladies, but a handsome fool is irresistible.
- The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
- There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
- Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
- I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.
- Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or…
- 'Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.
- If a man has committed wrong in life, I don't know any moralist more anxious to point his errors out to the world than his…
- If a man's character is to be abused, say what you will, there's nobody like a relative to do the business.
- The world is a looking-glass, and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face. Frown at it, and it will in turn…
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- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- Men of sense often learn from their enemies. It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of… — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
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