William Makepeace Thackeray on enjoyment
William Makepeace Thackeray90 quotes“Sir, Respect Your Dinner: idolize it, enjoy it properly. You will be many hours in the week, many weeks in the year, and many years in your life happier if you do.”
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Kindnesses are easily forgotten; but injuries! what worthy man does not keep those in mind?
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Mother is the name for God in the lips and hearts of little children.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish; it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray A person can’t help their birth.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray People who do not know how to laugh are always pompous and self-conceited.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Frequent the company of your betters.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Bravery never goes out of fashion.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray In the midst of friends, home, and kind parents, she was alone.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Next to eating good dinners, a healthy man with a benevolent turn of mind, must like, I think, to read about them.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray There is a skeleton in every house.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Under the magnetism of friendship the modest man becomes bold; the shy, confident; the lazy, active; and the impetuous, prudent and peaceful.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Money has only a different value in the eyes of each.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Which of us is happy in this world? Which of us has his desire? or, having it, is satisfied?
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray If thou hast never been a fool, be sure thou wilt never be a wise man.
William Makepeace ThackerayWilliam Makepeace Thackeray Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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