There is a skeleton in every house.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYThere is a skeleton in every house.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt is comparatively easy to leave a mistress, but very hard to be left by one.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYBusiness first; pleasure afterwards.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAlas! we are the sport of destiny.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt’s a great comfort to some people to groan over their imaginary ills.
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 THACKERAYVanity is often the unseen spur.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIs beauty beautiful, or is it only our eyes that make it so?
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 THACKERAYDare and the world always yields; or if it beats you sometimes, dare it again and it will succumb.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYLife without laughing is a dreary blank.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYTo love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYA good laugh is sunshine in the house.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYAll is vanity, nothing is fair.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYIt is a friendly heart that has plenty of friends.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAYI believe that remorse is the least active of all a man’s moral senses.
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY