Women are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
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Humor is wit and love.
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Dare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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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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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.
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The world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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You can’t order remembrance out of the mind; and a wrong that was a wrong yesterday must be a wrong to-morrow.
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