Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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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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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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To endure is greater than to dare; to tire out hostile fortune; to be daunted my no difficulty; to keep heart when all have lost it; to go through intrigue spotless; to forgo even ambition when the end is gained – who can say this is not greatness?
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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I set it down as a maxim, that it is good for a man to live where he can meet his betters, intellectual and social.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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