A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYYou can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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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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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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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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