When I say that I know women, I mean I know that I don’t know them. Every single woman I ever knew is a puzzle to me, as, I have no doubt, she is to herself.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYFollow your honest convictions and be strong.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Except for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
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The best of women are hypocrites.
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To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
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Life without laughing is a dreary blank.
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It’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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When Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
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Pray God, keep us simple.
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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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It is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
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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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To be thought rich is as good as to be rich.
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A fool can no more see his own folly than he can see his ears.
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Do not be in a hurry to succeed. What would you have to live for afterwards? Better make the horizon your goal; it will always be ahead of you.
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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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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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