There are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThere are a thousand thoughts lying within a man that he does not know till he takes up a pen to write.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYHumor is wit and love.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYVanity is often the unseen spur.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBad husbands will make bad wives.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYKindness is very indigestible. It disagrees with very proud stomachs.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYExcept for the young or very happy, I can’t say I am sorry for anyone who dies.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIn the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA person can’t help their birth.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLearn to admire rightly; the great pleasure of life is that. Note what the great men admired; they admired great things; narrow spirits admire basely, and worship meanly.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife without laughing is a dreary blank.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYMother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife is a mirror: if you frown at it, it frowns back; if you smile, it returns the greeting.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe 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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThe world is a looking glass and gives back to every man the reflection of his own face.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIf there is no love more in yonder heart, it is but a corpse unburied.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWhen 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 THACKERAY