When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
Walk of life:British novelist
Born:18 July 1811, Kolkata
Died:24 December 1863, London, U.K
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When you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
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Oh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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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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Humor is wit and love.
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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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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