An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBad husbands will make bad wives.
More William Makepeace Thackeray Quotes
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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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We know that Heaven chastens those whom it loves best; being pleased by repeated trials, to make pure spirits more pure.
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There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
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There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
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People hate as they love, unreasonably.
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There is a skeleton in every house.
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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One of the great conditions of anger and hatred is, that you must tell and believe lies against the hated object, in order, as we said, to be consistent.
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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.
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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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Pray God, keep us simple.
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Love seems to survive life, and to reach beyond it. I think we take it with us past the grave. Do we not still give it to those who have left us? May we not hope that they feel it for us, and that we shall leave it here in one or two fond bosoms, when we also are gone?
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A person can’t help their birth.
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Bravery never goes out of fashion.
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People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
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