Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYKindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAn immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIn the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThere are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAlas! we are the sport of destiny.
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 THACKERAYThe world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe world is good natured to people who are good natured.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYExcept for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYHint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYRevenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNever lose a chance of saying a kind word.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY