Humor is wit and love.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYPeople who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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There is a skeleton in every house.
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
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Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
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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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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
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Then sing as Martin Luther sang, As Doctor Martin Luther sang, “Who loves not wine, woman and song, He is a fool his whole life long.”
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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