Follow your honest convictions and be strong.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYVanity Fair is a very vain, wicked, foolish place, full of all sorts of humbugs and falsenesses and pretensions.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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A lady who sets her heart upon a lad in uniform must prepare to change lovers pretty quickly, or her life will be but a sad one.
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It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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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.
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Humor is wit and love.
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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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Out 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?
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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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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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The world is good natured to people who are good natured.
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