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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe best of women are hypocrites.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
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No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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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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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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.
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Successful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
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Humor is wit and love.
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