"Life is a mirror: if you frown at……" — William Makepeace Thackeray
"Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting."
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William Makepeace Thackeray
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183 Quotes by William Makepeace Thackeray
William Makepeace Thackeray has 183 quotes on this site.
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Why do they always put mud into coffee on board steamers? Why does the tea generally taste of boiled boots?
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Certain corpuscles, denominated Christmas Books, with the ostensible intention of swelling the tide of exhilaration, or other expansive emotions, incident…
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At that comfortable tavern on Pontchartrain we had a bouillabaisse than which a better was never eaten at Marseilles; and…
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Life is soul's nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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What stories are new? All types of all characters march through all fables.
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There is no good in living in a society where you are merely the equal of everybody else. The true…
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The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates…
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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He first selected the smallest one...and then bowed his head as though he were saying grace. Opening his mouth very…
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What a dignity it gives an old lady, that balance at the bankers! How tenderly we look at her faults…
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent…
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For his part, every beauty of art or nature made him thankful as well as happy, and that the pleasure…
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Sometimes I frown and I don't realise it.
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As my mom always said, 'You'd rather have smile lines than frown lines.'
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A smile cures the wounding of a frown.
— William Shakespeare
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Before you put on a frown, make absolutely sure there are no smiles available.
— James M. Beggs
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The old woman was not only ugly with the ugliness age brings us all but showed signs of formidable ugliness…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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The way I miss my daughter Esme is to worry about her. It is not a pleasurable longing. It contorts…
— Olivia Williams
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The world is like a mirror; frown at it, and it frowns at you. Smile and it smiles, too.
— Herbert Samuel, 1st Viscount Samuel
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When fiction rises pleasing to the eye, men will believe, because they love the lie; but truth herself, if clouded…
— Charles Churchill
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A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to…
— Charles Bowers
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My passions are all asleep from my having slumbered till nearly eleven and weakened the animal fiber all over me…
— John Keats
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It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
— Billie Jean King
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All socialists have bad backs because we slouch — except when we're watching the news when we sit on the…
— Jeremy Hardy
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