Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYOut 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?
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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Love 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?
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Vanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
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Lucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
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It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Life is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
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Humor is wit and love.
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