A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYPray God, keep us simple.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBad husbands will make bad wives.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYKindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNext to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe best of women are hypocrites.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAh 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 THACKERAYWe know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLucky he who has been educated to bear his fate, whatsoever it may be, by an early example of uprightness, and a childish training in honor.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIf thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThere is a skeleton in every house.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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 THACKERAYExcept for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY