What a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen Fate wills that something should come to pass, she sends forth a million of little circumstances to clear and prepare the way.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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Is beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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It is an awful thing to get a glimpse, as one sometimes does, when the time is past, of some little, little wheel which works the whole mighty machinery of fate, and see how our destinies turn on a minute’s delay or advance.
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Every man ought to be in love a few times in his life, and to have a smart attack of the fever. You are better for it when it is over: the better for your misfortune, if you endure it with a manly heart; how much the better for success, if you win it and a good wife into the bargain!
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If there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
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Bad husbands will make bad wives.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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Kindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
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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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All is vanity, nothing is fair.
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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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Love makes fools of us all, big and little.
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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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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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Humor is wit and love.
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Never marry with the expectation of changing a person.
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