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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Those who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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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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Hint at the existence of wickedness in a light, easy, and agreeable manner, so that nobody’s fine feelings may be offended.
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Let a man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim: Attacking is the only secret. Dare and the world yields, or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and you will succeed.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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Humor is wit and love.
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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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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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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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