black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.

William Makepeace Thackeray

Related Topics

Face Man Reflection World

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Vanity is often the unseen spur.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

See Vanity
Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise–a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Choice Economics Friendship Goodness Wisdom
To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Appearance Fake Right Thinking
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Achievement Excellence Happiness Praise
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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Goodness Intellectual Live Man Social
Ah me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Angry Creation Harm Intend Ourselves Wound
The best of women are hypocrites.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Best Hypocrisy Woman
To 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 THACKERAY

Best Couple Love See Sight Wonder Young
The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Moral Prosperity Vice World
People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Character Laughter People Selfish
It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Destiny Fate Glimpse Machine Ourselves Past Time
If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Bury Death Heart Love Yourself
People hate as they love, unreasonably.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Hate Love People Reason
It is from the level of calamities, not that of every-day life, that we learn impressive and useful lessons.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Adversity Day Learning Lesson Level Life
Bravery never goes out of fashion.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Brave Fashion One Liner
Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

Active Confidence Friendship Man Modesty Peace

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes