Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYMother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNo particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
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 THACKERAYSuccessful people aren’t born that way. They become successful by establishing the habit of doing things unsuccessful people don’t like to do. The successful people don’t always like these things themselves; they just get on and do them.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYOne of the greatest of a great man’s qualities is success; ‘t is the result of all the others; ‘t is a latent power in him which compels the favor of the gods, and subjugates fortune.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLove makes fools of us all, big and little.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThere is a skeleton in every house.
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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYVanity is often the unseen spur.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIn the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhich of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThen 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.”
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe best of women are hypocrites.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYOut of the fictitious book I get the expression of the life, of the times, of the manners, of the merriment, of the dress, the pleasure, the laughter, the ridicules of society. The old times live again. Can the heaviest historian do more for me?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNever lose a chance of saying a kind word.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY