There are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThere are many sham diamonds in this life which pass for real, and vice versa.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo see a young couple loving each other is no wonder; but to see an old couple loving each other is the best sight of all.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA good laugh is sunshine in the house.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYKindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNext to excellence is the appreciation of it.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBusiness first; pleasure afterwards.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNever lose a chance of saying a kind word.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen you look at me, when you think of me, I am in paradise.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYOh, Vanity of vanities! How wayward the decrees of Fate are; How very weak the very wise, How very small the very great are!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhat a charming reconciler and peacemaker money is!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYEvery 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!
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWe can’t all be lions in this world. There must be some lambs, harmless, kindly, gregarious creatures for eating and shearing.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThose who forgets their friends to follow those of a higher status are truly snobs.
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 THACKERAYLove 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?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY