« All Next Best Quotes
·
William Makepeace Thackeray's Page
Next Best Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
1 Next Best quote by William Makepeace Thackeray
More Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray has 191 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
-
Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident upon the…
-
At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and not the…
-
Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
-
What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
-
There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true pleasure of…
-
The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style…
-
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
-
He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very wide, he…
-
What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults if she…
-
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
-
For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure to be…
See all 191 quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray »
More Next Best Quotes
Popular Next Best quotes from across the collection:
-
I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it.
— Frank A. Clark
-
Success is the next best thing to happiness, and if you can't be happy as a success, it's very unlikely that you…
— Michael Korda
-
You cannot make a mistake, you can only make a decision that will be your next best step.
— Neale Donald Walsch
-
Among provocative, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
The next best thing to saying a good thing yourself is to quote one.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
A good education is the next best thing to a pushy mother.
— Charles M. Schulz
-
Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next best is to prevent the junction of the…
— Sun Tzu
-
WINE, n.Fermented grape-juice known to the Women's Christian Union as "liquor," sometimes as "rum." Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to…
— Ambrose Bierce
-
Wine, madam, is God's next best gift to man.
— Ambrose Bierce
-
Among provocatives, the next best thing to good preaching is bad preaching. I have even more thoughts during or enduring it than…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Of the best rulers, The people only know that they exist; the next best they love and praise the next they fear;…
— Laozi
-
Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should…
— Edward Abbey
See all Next Best Quotes »
Browse William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes by Category