No particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYNo particular motive for living, except the custom and habit of it.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYFrequent the company of your betters.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife without laughing is a dreary blank.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYWomen are jealous of cigars, they regard them as a strong rival.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBad husbands will make bad wives.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAlas! we are the sport of destiny.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAn immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAh me! we wound where we never intended to strike; we create anger where we never meant harm; and these thoughts are the thorns in our cushion.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife is soul’s nursery- its training place for the destinies of eternity.
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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt 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.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLove makes fools of us all, big and little.
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 THACKERAYA cheerful look brings joy to the heart.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYKindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYOut 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?
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY