Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYChoose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAll is vanity, nothing is fair.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWe know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe world is good natured to people who are good natured.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBenevolence and feeling ennoble the most trifling actions.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBusiness first; pleasure afterwards.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA good laugh is sunshine in the house.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYDare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLove seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYMother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYUnder the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNext to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYVanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY