Life is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA 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.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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Humor is wit and love.
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
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It is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
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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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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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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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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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Never lose a chance of saying a kind word.
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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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One 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.
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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Revenge may be wicked, but it’s natural.
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The moral world has no particular objection to vice, but an insuperable repugnance to hearing vice called by its proper name.
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To be beautiful is enough! if a woman can do that well who should demand more from her? You don’t want a rose to sing.
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Alas! we are the sport of destiny.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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A pair of bright eyes with a dozen glances suffice to subdue a man; to enslave him, and enflame him; to make him even forget; they dazzle him so that the past becomes straightway dim to him; and he so prizes them that he would give all his life to possess ’em.
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Frequent the company of your betters.
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A good laugh is sunshine in the house.
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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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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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