The great moments of life are but moments like the others. Your doom is spoken in a word or two. A single look from the eyes; a mere pressure of the hand, may decide it; or of the lips though they cannot speak.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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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, and worship meanly.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Business first; pleasure afterwards.
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Out of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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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.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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